A recent review identified 955 households in need of housing assistance, including poor and near-poor families and those of revolutionary contributors. Among them, 424 have failed to meet the criteria for new construction or repairs.

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 A house is built in Co Do district, Can Tho city.

As of now, 531 homes in the city still require either construction or renovation, with an estimated budget of VND 27 billion (USD 1.06 million). This includes building 371 new ones at a cost of VND 22.2 billion and repairing 160 houses VND 4.8 billion.

Tran Thi Xuan Mai, Director of the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, acknowledged significant challenges to the work, which is expected to be done by September 2025.

Last year, the city completed the construction and repair of 665 homes worth VND 38.6 billion, benefiting poor, near-poor, ethnic minority households as well as the group of policy beneficiaries and revolutionary contributors.

The nationwide campaign to do away with temporary and dilapidated houses was officially launched on April 13 in 2024, with the goal of completing the task by 2025. Its three key objectives are: providing housing for people with meritorious services to the revolution (about 200,000 units) using state funds; assisting in building homes for low-income households under national target programs (about 88,000 units); eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for other vulnerable groups across the country. Approximately 153,881 substandard houses of other vulnerable groups will need funding of at least VND 6.5 trillion to replace.

Source: VNA