Half the proposed 20 projects, with 8,300 units, are planned in districts 7, 12 and Binh Tan and Thu Duc City.

Some 9,500 apartments will be built in suburban districts like Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon and Nha Be.

Apartment buildings in HCMC's District 7, October 2021.

The remaining 200 apartments will be built in central districts, and the total cost of the 20 projects will be over VND37.6 trillion ($1.66 billion).

In 2016-20, nearly 15,000 apartments were built for workers in the city.

The city recently announced plans to build one million apartments to replace aging and low-quality housing for low-income people.

A survey by the city labor union found that 1.3 million workers needed housing.

The average worker’s housing is 14 square meters, costs VND1.6 million to rent and is shared by four people. This means workers spend 10-16 percent of their income on housing.

In 2020, some 70 percent of new apartment supply in HCMC was in the high-end segment, with the affordable segment accounting for just 1 percent, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association.

Detail plan of urban and social house areas in Viet Yen and Yen Dung approved

(BGO) – The People’s Committee in Bac Giang province (PPC) has approved for the adjustment of the Detail Plan Task to build some urban and social house areas in Viet Yen and Yen Dung districts.

Job and boarding-house “ATMs” to support workers amid pandemic

The Youth Social Work Centre under the Vietnam Youth Federation Central Committee will launch two programmes - “Community-based Job ATMs” and “Community-based boarding-house ATMs to support workers who are living in difficulty in Ho Chi Minh City.

Boarding houses await… businesses

(BGO) – Learning from the Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control process over the past time, Bac Giang province has directed authorities of Viet Yen district to build a model of "safe boarding house" - dormitory for workers in industrial parks (IPs). 

Research and study about history of communal house and pagoda via QR code

(BGO) - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (Youth Union) in Bac Giang city, Dinh Ke and Tho Xuong wards have made debut of two projects instructing to research and study about the National Art and Historical Relic Site Dong Nghiem pagoda (Ke pagoda) and Historical Cultural Relic Site of communal house and pagoda in Ve village via QR Code.

Boarding House Association – new model

(BGO) – The Business Association of “safe boarding house” newly established in Viet Yen district seems to be a new model not only in Bac Giang province but also in the country.

Source: VnExpress