The event heard that as many as 2,000 households in 55 provinces and cities nationwide have been provided with loans for social housing projects, at the outstanding total of nearly VND 500 billion (over USD 21.3 million). On average, each household was able to borrow around VND 261 million.
General Director of the VBSP Duong Quyet Thang said that the bank has mobilized financial resources to create policy credit capital resources, thus meeting the demand for loans for people with low incomes and other policy beneficiaries, especially in the field of social housing.
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An apartment block for workers in the Dong An Industrial Park, Binh Duong province |
The Government, relevant ministries, and agencies have given due attention to social housing programs implemented by the VBSP in recent years, he stressed, adding that they have contributed to guiding poor people in joining hands with the State and community in building social houses for themselves.
The programs have helped promote socio-economic development and poverty reduction, as well as contributing to the national new-style rural development program, Thang noted.
Michael Dorner, director of international cooperation projects for the BSH, shared the German bank’s experience related to housing saving loans and gave recommendations for the VBSP in the work.
According to Dorner, the BSH mobilizes capital from the contribution of employees through savings contracts.
Deputy General Director of the VBSP Nguyen Van Ly said the workshop contributes to illustrating the model of housing savings and the experience of Germany and other countries around the world in the field.
It introduced a legal system for protecting depositors of social housing, as well as the operation principles of the housing savings system and experience in developing German building societies in Eastern European countries and China.
The social housing loan program under Decree No.100/2015 / ND-CP is a new lending program, under which the VBSP is gradually completing measures to facilitate the management of capital sources.
Thang said that in order to promote the market and solve the social housing problem on a mass scale, it is important to look past the role of the State and banks, instead raising public awareness of saving up for housing.
He also underlined the need to build the housing saving model for low-income laborers, saying that this will help reduce the burden on the State budget.
Vu Van Phan, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Construction's Department of Housing and Real Estate Management, said the demand for social housing in Vietnam is very high, especially in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and provinces with urban and industrial zones.
The Ministry of Construction has estimated that from now until 2020, in urban areas nationwide more than 1.7 million dwellers will be in need of housing and about 1.7 million migrant workers will need to have stable places to stay in.
The VBSP is implementing 20 policy credit programs, including four on housing loans.
Through preferential credit sources, 568,000 houses have been built for poor households and policy beneficiaries; 105,000 houses for flood-hit households in the Mekong Delta region; and more than 13,000 storm shelters in the central region. Nearly 2,000 households could borrow loans to buy and build social houses.
Source: VNA