Under the plan, the city’s general unemployment rate is expected to be below 3% and less than 3.5% in urban areas, while the rate of trained workers is anticipated to surpass 80%.

The city also ensures that 100% of national contributors and families of revolutionary contributors will be provided with monthly allowances.

In addition, about 70% of the workforce is supposed to participate in social insurance and 50% is hoped to participate in unemployment insurance. The city also expects 65% of its people of retirement age to receive pensions, retirement and social benefits.

Notably, the city targets to raise the average housing area per capita to about 32 m2 per person and provide additional social housing areas of about 2.5 million m2 by 2030.

Central bank to accelerate disbursement of social housing loan package: governor

The State Bank of Vietnam will step up the information work to further popularize the social housing loan package among the public given its sluggish disbursement, Governor Nguyen Thi Hong said Monday.

Social housing credit program helps people settle down

BAC GIANG - In recent years, the Bac Giang Provincial Social Policy Bank (SPB) has effectively implemented Decree No.100/2015/ND-CP dated October 20, 2015 of the Government on social housing development and management (Decree 100). Many officials, civil servants and low-income workers receive preferential loans to buy, build and repair houses to stabilize their lives.

Bac Giang mobilizes sources to care for workers’ housing demand

(BGO) – As an industrial development province, Bac Giang attracts hundreds of thousands of workers from other provinces and cities. To help them comfortably stay and work at the business for long time toward stable production, the province considers development of social house for workers an urgent key task.

Social housing projects seek loans from $5B credit package

Thirty-seven social housing projects have qualified for loans from the VND120 trillion ($5.07 billion) credit package that the government has set aside to boost affordable home supply.

Construction kicked off for 9 social housing projects in H1

Nine projects on social housing and housing for workers in industrial zones saw their construction started between January and June, expected to offer 18,768 units to the market.

Source: NDO