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Ladies and gentlemen, according to
statistics from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, 

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Up to now, the rate of workers in
industrial zones who can buy or rent houses is still low. 

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As of May 2023, there are 398 industrial
parks nationwide with about 7 million workers, 

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In which more than 50%
of workers have housing needs. 

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While the rate of housing serving workers working in industrial zones, 

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The new export processing zones only
meet about 30% of demand. 

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Survey data in 2024 showed that 53.9% of
migrant workers are living in rented 

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rooms of level 4 houses. 

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House for rent, house made of
corrugated iron or fiber cement. 

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For level 4 boarding houses, although
most of them are equipped with private toilets, 

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but living space is very limited. 

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Currently, capital for the social
housing development program for workers is still quite limited. 

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difficult to access and not yet met the needs. 

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Regarding the issue of land use fee
exemption, home buyers, renters, and businesses themselves 

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not directly benefit from this policy. 

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10% profit in social housing investment
is not attractive enough. 

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In addition, there are issues regarding
construction planning and project development. 

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only focus on technical infrastructure works. 

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There is no decentralization of
management and investment in the policy mechanism. 

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To solve the shortage of accommodation
for workers in recent times, 

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The Party and the State have had many
policies to address workers' aspirations. 

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But the implementation process still has
many barriers that make the number of workers 

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The proportion of people who have not
had access to social housing benefits is high. 

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Today, Ban Lao Dong organizes a talk show with the topic 

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Lack of housing for workers in
industrial parks, current situation and solutions 

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to discuss this issue. 

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Attending the Semi-Labor discussion
today, I would like to respectfully introduce 

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Mr. Le Van Nghia, Head of the Trade
Union Institution Project Management 

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Department, Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. 

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Hello everyone. 

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And I would like to respectfully
introduce Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam, General 

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Director of G-Home Joint Stock Company, Social Housing Development Enterprise. 

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Hello audience 

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To start today's program, we would like
to invite our two guests and the 

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audience to watch the following short report. 

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Ms. Le Thi Bich Hoa is a teacher, her
husband is a worker at Quang Minh industrial park. 

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Because she could not afford to buy her
own house, her family chose to rent a 

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worker's house at CT1B building,
Kim Trung, Dong Anh, Hanoi. 

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Renting a house and living there from
the beginning, I was too familiar with 

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the scene of falling from the elevator. 

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Sometimes having to walk up dozens of
floors every day, Ms. Bich Hoa admitted 

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that even when buying a
house at a preferential price, 

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Her family also will not choose
to buy in similar areas. 

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From 2019, if I had to buy an apartment
like this, I probably wouldn't buy it. 

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As you can see in the ones in the
hallway, or the ones inside, I actually 

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find them quite poor. 

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Actually, because we haven't bought a
house yet, we're renting temporarily. 

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And when we have the conditions, we will
buy it elsewhere. 

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But in fact the volume is actually quite poor. 

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Every few days the bricks explode, the
bricks just push themselves up while 

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this elevator is unsafe. 

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This elevator almost always breaks down
and falls freely several times a month. 

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There, very dangerous. 

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Almost everyone here has to choose to
take the stairs for safety. 

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Housing project for workers in Thang
Long industrial park, Kim Trung, Dong Anh, Hanoi 

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is the first and only project in the
country, with a scale of about 20 

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hectares, built for workers. 

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However, after a period of operation,
the project has revealed many limitations. 

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Which worker housing can be the type
that is sold exclusively to workers? 

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But just for temporary rental like this 

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But for those that are
built temporarily like this 

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Then I see that the quality is not good. 

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To call it temporary is ok. 

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Long term then no 

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Expensive housing and low income cannot
help workers settle down and stabilize 

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their lives, so many workers admit that
they do not have the need to stay in the 

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industrial park and will consider
returning to their hometowns in the long run. 

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Or like a week ago the elevator broke
down, but now it's been working fine. 

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People said that while walking, the
ladder suddenly sank down. 

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For example, this floor, because it's my
floor, it just exploded. 

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It was exploded by bricks, it was
pressed against it, it exploded all the bricks. 

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If worker housing were easier to buy and
more interesting, would I choose to stay 

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in this house to work with my job? 

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You don't have to forget. 

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Because people living in the countryside
feel more peaceful and more comfortable. 

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The first solution is to rent to people,
rent to the government for support, 

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workers' salaries are very low, people
do not have enough money to raise 

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children, how can they rent a house. 

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Those who can afford it can buy it. The
third type is installment sales. After a 

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certain number of years, people will pay
in installments, and then the 

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house will become theirs. 

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That option is the optimal option. 

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In terms of administrative procedures
for renting, borrowing, and selling 

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houses, they must be very open and must
create opportunities for workers 

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to quickly access them. 

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But there should not be too many
procedures, workers are busy with work, 

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they do not have time to take
care of administrative procedures. 

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Therefore, we must support workers,
reduce all administrative procedures, 

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and create opportunities for people to
have early access to housing so that 

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they have the conditions
to work and prosper. 

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The Hanoi City Labor Federation said
that there is currently a serious 

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shortage of housing for workers in the area. 

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The whole city currently has nearly
170,000 industrial park workers, of 

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which people from other provinces account for about 80%. 

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However, the city only has 3 industrial
parks, including Thach That, Thang 

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Long and Phu Nghia, 

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There is a housing project for workers,
meeting nearly 20% of the 

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housing needs of workers. 

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About 80% of workers do not have housing
and have to rent houses built by 

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local people in residential areas. 

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Social housing projects for workers are
few and in fact do not meet 

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the needs of workers. 

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The above report partly reflects
the difficulties of workers today. 

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Because of the lack of housing, the
paradox that is happening today is that 

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despite the very small and lack of housing 

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But the workers were not interested in
the houses built for themselves. 

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Mr. Le Van Nghia, what is your assessment of this situation? 

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The reality is that currently, laborers
and workers in industrial parks 

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and export processing zones 

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is not strong but with the
houses of his own. 

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The first thing is that the housing area
of ​​the house where the worker 

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lives is very small. 

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and the facilities that support their
standard of living are 

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still very limited. 

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Especially in industrial parks and
export processing zones, the labor force 

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is very large. 

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This makes it a bit inconvenient
for them to travel. 

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This leads to their being inadequate in
terms of both physical condition and mobility. 

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and take all the things
about their convenience 

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resulting in not being as strong as the
opportunities they have now. 

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Yes, what about Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam? 

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As a social island development
enterprise, how do you assess this situation? 

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According to our records, there are two
relatively opposite trends, in the 

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Southern region and the Northern region. 

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In the South, for example provinces like
Dong Nai and Binh Duong, the labor force 

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mainly comes from the North, the
Southwest, and the Central region. 

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Therefore, the workers' attachment to
that locality, to that area, is 

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more extensive. 

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So social housing developments in those
areas are better received. 

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As for the North, according to our
survey, we found that for many workers, 

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people only consider the
place where they work. 

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It is not permanent, but it has a
relatively temporary nature. 

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Even though people have husbands and
wives, they still leave their children 

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in the countryside and do not bring them
up to live with their husband's grandmother. 

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And they only do it until a certain
age, like 40, 

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And they saved a lot of money and they
went back to their hometown to build. 

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It's the same amount of money, but in
the countryside they build very big houses. 

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But where they work, they don't buy. 

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It can be said that currently the rate
of workers in industrial zones who 

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can buy houses is still low. 

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A large number of workers have to rent
accommodation in damp and lacking basic living conditions. 

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Even without a home 

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As the head of the union moderation
project management department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. 

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So how do you evaluate this situation? 

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Regarding this situation, we have also
surveyed many places, especially in 

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areas where there is a
large citizen workforce. 

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For example, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and in
Dong Nai, then Binh Duong, Ho Chi Minh 

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City and even Hanoi. 

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These areas are really difficult for
working citizens in collective 

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housing areas. 

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As I said earlier, first of all,
their apartment is very small. 

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Second, their sanitation area has places
where people go together, not like a 

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whole apartment. 

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And thirdly, the conditions,
electricity, water, living, their living 

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conditions are almost gone, there is
nothing to support people. 

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This leads to great difficulty for
workers when staying at 

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the boat boarding house. 

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Then that is the very worrying thing in
the work of citizens. 

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Workers let us regenerate the labor of
workers to continue production tomorrow. 

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Those are the current eye problems we
are facing a lot in 

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all provinces and cities. 

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Nowadays, the reality is that there are
many housing areas for workers but not many workers accept to live there. 

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Is this because the housing projects for
workers are no longer suitable for the 

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needs of workers, Mr. Nguyen Hoang? 

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The thing is that there aren't many
workers or the 

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workers aren't interested. 

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For the houses that were
supposed to be theirs 

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Well it comes from both sides. 

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The first is the cohesiveness
as I just analyzed. 

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The second factor is that there are
also a lot of constructions. 

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But it is not suitable for the working
conditions of the worker. 

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There are places where it is too big. 

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There are places where it is too small. 

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And it is not enough for one to be able
to have both husband and wife and children. 

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Even many of the working-class
families we surveyed 

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In order to look after the child, they
need to ask the maternal and paternal grandmothers to come. 

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Then those projects are not suitable. 

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But perhaps more than that
is the reason. 

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The first reason is that there
are not enough amenities. 

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The surrounding services to
meet their lives 

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The second thing is that people still 

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Still doubting the quality 

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Because in the past 

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The quality of social housing projects
is not good. 

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Now there is improvement 

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Yes, currently the average income of
workers is 7 million VND per month. 

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With this income level, add up the
income of both husband and wife. 

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It is also difficult to buy a social
housing with a price of 1 to 2 billion VND. 

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So do we need a mechanism to invest,
manage and distribute social housing? 

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With many segments for workers to access, Mr. Le Van Nghia 

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It is true that the current reality is
that the balance of workers, we are 

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currently in industrial parks and export processing zones. 

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Mainly labor from 7 to 10
million per person 

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And so if the couple is like that
then they get 14 million 

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To save up is to raise two children, and
I haven't even mentioned family yet. 

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It raised two children and then
the couple spent it. 

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Well I think it's just enough for two
couples, a husband and wife. 

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And so in our social housing today 

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We have segmented very clearly. 

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From 25m2 to 70m2 

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And now the new housing law, the
government's 100th decision maker, has just come out. 

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There is also a suggestion that the 70m2
can be added or subtracted. 

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Add 10% and it will be up
to 77m2 for example. 

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And its min is 25m2 

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So the segmentation in the housing
law is very clear. 

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Leading to investors need to
balance this issue. 

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For example we do 25m2 

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Then the house can we
make a studio apartment 

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Then there will be a new couple, maybe
newly married, then people can live there. 

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About that range is about 12-13 million 

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One square meter 

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Equivalent to about 300-400 million 

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Then people can save up to buy it. 

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So that segment and apartment are investors. 

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And partners 

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We need to balance that. 

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Let us do it this way 

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Workers can buy houses. 

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But if you build a big apartment 

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The investment level as you
said is 1-2 million VND. 

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Then such a level is for people with income 

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We are 7 million 

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One person can never buy 

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Yes, according to current statistics,
the whole country has about 3.78 million 

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direct workers in industrial parks and export processing zones. 

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Of which, there are about 1.8 million
workers in need of housing, worker housing. 

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Although 122 projects with a scale of
about 2.7 million square meters of 

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floor space have been completed, 

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But it only meets about 30% of
the needs of workers. 

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam, how do you evaluate this situation? 

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The situation is that the numbers we
have only calculated for workers working 

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in industrial parks and
export processing zones. 

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There is also a very large force, which
is the force of civil servants, public 

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employees, and armed forces. 

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So the need for more than 1 million
apartments, I'm afraid, does not 

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fully reflect this shortage. 

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Because according to our records, our
survey, the French Republic, they have 

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been doing social housing policy
for decades now. 

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And they are a developed country but
right now, the current figure is that 

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they are still short of about 5.4
million social housing units for workers. 

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So the problem we lack and the 1 million
apartment project can only solve, in my 

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opinion, the first step. 

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We probably need to grow. 

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We must upgrade this project to become a
strategy for social housing development 

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and it must be long-term and stable. 

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Only then can we fundamentally solve the
housing problem in a situation where we 

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will industrialize very strongly
and urbanize very strongly. 

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Currently, Vietnam is only
urbanized at 42%. 

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But if according to the Party's
resolution, by 2045, we basically become 

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an industrialized country, 

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What does that mean?
Urbanization is about 80%. 

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So we see that the whole journey we have
traveled from the time of King Hung 

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until now we have only gone half way. 

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And the next 20 years, the next 21
years, we will have to go another 

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half in this urbanization process. 

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So we will have a lot of housing
shortage, especially social housing, 

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housing for workers, and for laborers in general. 

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Yes, according to the explanation of the
Ministry of Construction, some of the 

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main reasons leading to the
ineffective development of social housing 

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That is due to the lack of incentive
mechanisms for investors and not 

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strong enough to attract businesses. 

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Preferential loans are still limited and
conditions for buying social housing are still difficult. 

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As someone who directly builds social
housing, how do you evaluate these causes? 

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The point of view about land shortage, I
think it will be everywhere. 

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And no matter how much we build, it will
still be insufficient, as I just analyzed. 

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However, we cannot say that
we lack land. 

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Because for decades now all commercial
housing projects have been like that. 

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Must leave 20% of land fund to
build social housing 

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I want to ask a question,
where does that fund go? 

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Many provinces are working with
investors to only clear the 

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remaining 80%. 

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What about the 20% that they should have
cleared so they could create clean 

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land for social housing? 

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Then they have not done it. 

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We just need to review that, I think we
will have a relatively large land fund 

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for us to develop. 

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In addition, we must both encourage
and compel businesses. 

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That is if you don't handle it. 

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Use that and you will have to return it
to get the land fund. 

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According to the law 

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To do social housing 

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Basically we will not lack 

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And the number 20% 

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Why have we been proposing
this for decades? 

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That is 

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A very scientific way of calculating 

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Our Survey 

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All developing countries 

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And the developed countries then 

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One in five people live
in social housing. 

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Of course they use different names. 

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They use public housing and
some other terms. 

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But basically we can understand that
it is a socialist house. 

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Yes, currently buying or renting social
housing still faces many difficulties and problems. 

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According to the law, workers must meet
two conditions: having a stable income 

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and having difficult housing
circumstances, and removing the 

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condition of confirming residence. 

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So what does this mean for workers, Mr. Le Van Nghia? 

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It is true that from the time the
housing law came into effect 

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until Decree 100 was issued. 

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effective from August 1, 2024 

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then leave the opinion of the
residential area 

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That is to say it is very relevant now. 

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Because it cannot be said that the
workers are working in this local position. 

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but when asking for opinions, you have
to go back to your hometown to ask for certain things. 

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he is here and there and has no
house in any way 

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so many things lead to
very difficult for workers. 

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After that we also fenced off with
the Ministry of Construction. 

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We agree with the ministries and branches. 

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also proposed the Ministry of
Unification of Vietnam is 

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do not include this content in the law 

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because it avoids inconvenience to workers. 

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So when this content comes up 

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then the workers are very excited 

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must be picked up, has
been supported a lot 

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in this new housing law 

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Yes, in some housing areas for workers
in Hanoi, it can be seen that 

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although the investment is very thorough, 

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But these houses still have many limitations. 

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First is the rapid deterioration of construction quality. 

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Residents often have to complain
about the quality of service. 

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As well as frequent water shortages or
elevator falls like at Kim Trung workers' housing area. 

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Mr. Le Van Nghia, how do you evaluate this situation? 

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In fact, if the current situation is
like what you just said, it is one of 

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the most dangerous construction projects. 

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Most importantly safety work. 

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Elevators that move people must be
inspected before moving people. 

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Second, it cannot be said that an
elevator that falls normally like that is very dangerous. 

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And there is the safety of the elevator. 

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On the contrary, regarding electricity,
water and other ancillary works, people 

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still have to ensure the quality of the works. 

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I think this is one of the problems that
we have in the management 

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of construction quality. 

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Secondly, it must be said clearly and
frankly that investors have not paid 

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much attention to this field. 

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As a result, investors who do not care
about quality will eventually be 

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affected in their business results. 

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And not only your business results but
also affect the future law that people 

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will have doubts about and it is very dangerous. 

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I don't want to see this house as if it
were like that, then we must have a way 

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to upgrade and repair it so that the
workers and employees can enjoy it. 

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Yes, what about Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam? 

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What do you think about the situation I just mentioned? 

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My perspective is quite different,
meaning that our law does not have any 

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specific regulation that the quality of
social housing must be lower than the 

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quality of commercial housing. 

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All comply with the same regulations and
standards of the 

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Ministry of Construction. 

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Even from the perspective of a direct
worker, I find that building social 

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housing and having construction
departments come and collect taxes is 

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more difficult than commercial housing. 

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Commercial housing only needs to collect
the common system and common 

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structure, but not apartments. 

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But social housing is down to each
brick, down to each ceiling, all are 

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collected very carefully by
local construction departments. 

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Here, in addition to the quality
enhancement factor, there is another 

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factor that we must also determine very
fairly with each other. 

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That is how well we build. 

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It will always deteriorate. 

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And we will have to use service fees,
maintenance fees so that we can ensure 

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the operation of the systems
in the buildings. 

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For example, the elevator system is
clearly inspected very clearly when 

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put into operation. 

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But following Mr. Nghia's opinion, we
must have more periodic inspections. 

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We have to have regular maintenance. 

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And the budget cannot be subsidized by
the state or the investor. 

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It is the users, the residents there,
who will have to elect a board of 

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directors and will have to spend
money to do that. 

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We need to eliminate the subsidy
mechanism in the thinking of those 

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living in high-rise apartments. 

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Yes, it can be said that nowadays, to
buy an apartment or a social house in 

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big cities, a family has to save their
whole life to buy a house, while the 

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quality is not commensurate. Is this the
reason why workers are not interested in 

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a house for themselves? Mr. Nguyen Hong Nam. 

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Here I continue to analyze, that is
our quality. 

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We can't let it degrade like that
because of a few cases. 

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Which affects the whole product type. 

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Maybe the old type had a type
of resettlement house. 

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It is obvious that the quality is poor. 

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But social housing now in my
subjective opinion 

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And also go to acceptance, go to
construction, go to acceptance 

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I have seen it everywhere
and it is not inferior. 

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Compared to the quality of
normal commercial housing 

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So we should not label it
as social housing. 

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Is housing for low income people 

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Or is it only for people with
very low income? 

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The National Assembly has also fixed it. 

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Under 15 million and
30 million for couples 

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That's not low income. 

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We see that the average income of
workers is only 7 million. 

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But this is the maximum income level up
to 15 million per person. 

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Or 30 million for both husband and wife 

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Then that is not low income. 

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And it's not low income. 

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Then its quality can not be low. 

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Social housing is housing
favored by the state. 

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In terms of no land use fees 

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Control investors, do not
benefit too much 

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Not low income housing 

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Strongly opposed 

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A similar assessment is that social
housing is low income housing. 

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I study all the models around the world. 

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There is not a single word 

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Of all countries 

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There was never a word low income in there. 

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It is not for the rich 

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But it is for the common working people. 

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And workers 

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I would also say that
they must have some savings. 

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If we have a loan 

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Then the workers must also
have an initial accumulation. 

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Certain 

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For example an initial accumulation 

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Apartment about 400 million 

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Then the workers must also get 20
to 30%. 

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Of that number 

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That means saving more than 100 million. 

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And I think a lot of people
can accumulate that amount. 

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In the moment before buying a house 

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Yes, so to promote the development of
social housing for workers, what is the 

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role of raising awareness for the
political system, businesses, and 

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workers about the importance of building
social housing, Mr. expert, 

00:24:02.747 --> 00:24:03.977 
Mr. Le Van Nghia? 

00:24:04.936 --> 00:24:09.176 
First of all, our political system is
one that we must have an approach to. 

00:24:10.456 --> 00:24:12.596 
But the fact is we have been approaching for a very long time. 

00:24:13.276 --> 00:24:16.616 
The Party and the State that we are
very concerned about social housing. 

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Second, businesses have also approached a lot. 

00:24:21.636 --> 00:24:27.216 
And for today's workers we are beginning
to transition to the model of industrialization. 

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Then we concentrate all the industrial
parks and export processing zones in one place. 

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So that we can have something to
gather the workforce. 

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And our productivity is concentrated. 

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Then let that model grow rapidly. 

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Then it leads to not being a business,
not being an organization. 

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But the political system we have to get involved in. 

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To ensure social security for everyone. 

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Then that is extremely urgent and necessary. 

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So what role does continuing to improve
social housing policies and institutions 

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play in promoting social housing
development, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nac? 

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Because I see that our recent change in
housing law comes with 

00:25:08.325 --> 00:25:09.837 
decrees and circulars. 

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It has been a revolution in the whole
way of looking at social housing. 

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We are more open-minded, we are not so
bound by extremely 

00:25:22.994 --> 00:25:24.657 
demanding views anymore. 

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But now only need two criteria, that is
income is not too high 

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and secondly there is
no housing locally. 

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But when we have to accept that in their
hometown they can have the land 

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left by their ancestors. 

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But they went to a city and they
didn't have a home there. 

00:25:43.077 --> 00:25:45.297 
then people can still buy. 

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Institutional reform is perhaps the
decisive factor for the development 

00:25:50.197 --> 00:25:51.517 
of social housing. 

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Because if we keep building, encouraging
businesses to build but can't 

00:25:56.252 --> 00:25:57.477 
sell or rent, 

00:25:57.477 --> 00:25:58.917 
then no one wants to do it. 

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The strength of the business
will also gradually run out. 

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Only when we can get rid
of the system like the past 

00:26:05.737 --> 00:26:10.517 
then i see that the workers, all the
people who buy social housing 

00:26:10.517 --> 00:26:13.137 
is accepting the whole thing is a joke. 

00:26:13.757 --> 00:26:21.477 
However, it still has things, it still
has things that are legally clear. 

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But the process of doing
it is still not smooth. 

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That is the unit where... 

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center or branch of the land
registration center of a local district 

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or city level 

00:26:34.777 --> 00:26:40.137 
must go confirm that it is a guy A plus
his wife and husband if any 

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There is not a single house
in the whole province. 

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It means that a guy at the district
level has to go and confirm in the whole province. 

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then this leads to it being very long. 

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And even for those who are qualified,
after this decree 100 

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It's longer than there was
no housing law. 

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Under the old housing law the
process would have been even faster. 

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Well that is also a hindrance. 

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Then we also strongly recommend that we
use the post-sue mechanism. 

00:27:14.117 --> 00:27:17.097 
Now the person who declares must
also take responsibility for himself. 

00:27:17.317 --> 00:27:23.517 
If there is such a thing as fraud, we
will boldly deal with it. 

00:27:24.257 --> 00:27:27.097 
Even criminal proceedings can be handled
now it is very easy. 

00:27:27.937 --> 00:27:30.777 
Obviously it is impossible for you to
have a home or not without knowing 

00:27:30.777 --> 00:27:32.197 
whether you have a home or not. 

00:27:32.897 --> 00:27:36.017 
It is not a small asset
but a very large asset. 

00:27:36.337 --> 00:27:42.457 
So if we accept that we will sue and
punish very heavily those cases of fraud. 

00:27:42.457 --> 00:27:49.087 
then perhaps the process of people
approaching the whole society will be 

00:27:49.087 --> 00:27:51.297 
quicker and more neat. 

00:27:51.297 --> 00:27:54.437 
and we will develop
social housing even faster. 

00:27:54.622 --> 00:27:57.482 
It can be seen that access
to social housing is still difficult. 

00:27:57.822 --> 00:28:01.622 
To promote this segment, how should the
role of the Trade Union be promoted? 

00:28:03.143 --> 00:28:07.247 
Firstly, the role of trade unions is
very important, including taking care of 

00:28:07.247 --> 00:28:10.403 
protecting the rights and ensuring the
legitimate rights of workers. 

00:28:11.223 --> 00:28:18.164 
Including care, care is in the
constitution, in the current legal 

00:28:18.164 --> 00:28:23.843 
regulations, especially in our trade
union law in 2012, 

00:28:24.503 --> 00:28:27.187 
We are currently revising and
supplementing, it is very specific in 

00:28:27.187 --> 00:28:30.603 
the field and role of trade unions in
the work of building social housing. 

00:28:30.603 --> 00:28:36.223 
We must see that in 2017, the General
Delegation of Vietnam proposed to the 

00:28:36.223 --> 00:28:40.639 
Prime Minister to carry out the work of
building housing for 

00:28:40.639 --> 00:28:41.843 
workers and laborers. 

00:28:41.843 --> 00:28:44.337 
in the experience zone and export
processing zone according to Decision 

00:28:44.337 --> 00:28:45.923 
655 of the Prime Minister in 2017. 

00:28:47.163 --> 00:28:51.797 
On that basis, we see that the Vietnam
General Confederation is also very 

00:28:51.797 --> 00:28:55.718 
concerned and takes care of the labor
force in industrial zones 

00:28:55.718 --> 00:28:57.143 
and export processing zones. 

00:28:57.383 --> 00:28:59.523 
Because there are so many workers and laborers, people really need houses. 

00:29:00.603 --> 00:29:03.778 
However, in the implementation program,
the Vietnam General Delegation has not 

00:29:03.778 --> 00:29:06.663 
been able to implement it
due to some legal reasons. 

00:29:08.083 --> 00:29:12.483 
And as the General Delegation of
Vietnam, we are determined to propose to 

00:29:12.483 --> 00:29:16.883 
the Party, the State, and especially the
National Assembly, to take such care. 

00:29:18.023 --> 00:29:22.703 
Recently, after a period of continuous
fighting, the role of the Vietnam 

00:29:22.703 --> 00:29:27.383 
General Delegation has been recognized
by the Party, the State, the National 

00:29:27.383 --> 00:29:28.943 
Assembly, and the people. 

00:29:30.603 --> 00:29:36.710 
The Vietnam General Delegation also
supports the recent housing law, housing 

00:29:36.710 --> 00:29:45.038 
law number 27 of 2023, which has just
added item 4 of article 80 of 

00:29:45.038 --> 00:29:46.703 
the housing law. 

00:29:47.523 --> 00:29:51.005 
Allow the Vietnam General Confederation
of Labor to be the governing body and 

00:29:51.005 --> 00:29:53.683 
invest in social housing for
citizens and workers to rent. 

00:29:54.463 --> 00:29:58.455 
That is one of the great successes, the
role of the trade union 

00:29:58.455 --> 00:29:59.683 
is raised very high. 

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All people, workers, Party, State,
Government will be very supportive. 

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That is one of the very important roles of trade unions. 

00:30:09.385 --> 00:30:13.502 
Besides the role of trade unions, what
is the role of good implementation, 

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publicity, transparency, and focusing on
inspection and supervision of the 

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construction, leasing, and purchase of social housing? 

00:30:19.966 --> 00:30:26.606 
How to make social housing accessible
to all 

00:30:26.606 --> 00:30:28.886 
The law has also been very specific. 

00:30:28.886 --> 00:30:35.046 
That's us if there were 2 on 1 

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An apartment that has more than one
interested person applying for. 

00:30:41.826 --> 00:30:46.686 
Then we will have to give priority to
those who have contributed to the revolution. 

00:30:46.686 --> 00:30:47.806 
People with disabilities 

00:30:47.806 --> 00:30:53.806 
Also, if there is no such object, we
must draw lots in a very public manner. 

00:30:53.806 --> 00:30:59.426 
Well, I think the best thing to monitor
is to make it public. 

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Everything we publish in the media 

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Electronic portals of
construction departments 

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Now we have it easy 

00:31:09.266 --> 00:31:16.986 
Where we need to be is there an
information about eligible social housing 

00:31:16.986 --> 00:31:20.538 
If we go to the local construction
department portal on the first floor, we 

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can find it right away. 

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There they are open about the price they
are open about the application process 

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It doesn't have something to do wrong 

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And people have every right to complain
if that happens in a non-public manner. 

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Yes, besides what you just mentioned,
there are also some lingering issues. 

00:31:43.959 --> 00:31:45.939 
Housing quality is still a matter of concern for people. 

00:31:45.939 --> 00:31:48.719 
So Mr. Le Van Nghia, what should
we do, what solutions are needed? 

00:31:48.719 --> 00:31:51.339 
So we can improve the quality of construction for workers' housing? 

00:31:52.357 --> 00:31:55.437 
Then I think there
must be two solutions. 

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The first solution is for state
management agencies to get involved. 

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Because currently the Ministry of
Construction has a department to assess the quality of construction works. 

00:32:04.477 --> 00:32:07.397 
Of course those units must have focuses. 

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to verify, then inspect, then supervise
those things in the 

00:32:14.663 --> 00:32:16.117 
construction project. 

00:32:16.717 --> 00:32:20.097 
However, we see that nowadays
in any construction project 

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then there is an assessment,
assessment of state authorities 

00:32:23.157 --> 00:32:26.377 
on construction drawing design
and basic design. 

00:32:27.157 --> 00:32:29.077 
So that assessment is an assessment of the quality of the project. 

00:32:30.277 --> 00:32:32.457 
The second thing is about the state agencies we manage. 

00:32:32.577 --> 00:32:34.057 
We have a responsibility to monitor. 

00:32:35.297 --> 00:32:38.237 
The second is the responsibility
of the home builder. 

00:32:39.177 --> 00:32:41.997 
Then we must also have managers, 

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then it is managed, especially the
management of input materials, 

00:32:48.117 --> 00:32:50.077 
then manage the distribution, 

00:32:50.097 --> 00:32:53.777 
that we build, and then manage
everything related to 

00:32:53.777 --> 00:32:57.097 
what we do about worker management 

00:32:57.757 --> 00:32:59.677 
Then there are many workers who can design like this, 

00:32:59.777 --> 00:33:01.817 
but people are negligent so that they cannot guarantee, 

00:33:01.957 --> 00:33:04.297 
especially those works, outbuildings, 

00:33:04.837 --> 00:33:05.997 
usually it's because of that. 

00:33:06.557 --> 00:33:08.737 
And the corners, the corners where we get soaked, 

00:33:09.437 --> 00:33:13.197 
then there are the things, generally a
lot of things for us to control. 

00:33:13.837 --> 00:33:16.357 
So the function, the biggest role we have is two units. 

00:33:16.857 --> 00:33:18.617 
One is the investor agency. 

00:33:20.097 --> 00:33:24.057 
State surveillance agency, we step in to
give workers and employees 

00:33:24.057 --> 00:33:27.737 
And in general, social housing
is more stable. 

00:33:28.317 --> 00:33:31.417 
And we also told the Ministry of
Construction and the Ministry of Construction agreed. 

00:33:32.457 --> 00:33:36.064 
And recently the Ministry of
Construction also unanimously 

00:33:36.064 --> 00:33:37.417 
issued a circular, 

00:33:38.117 --> 00:33:41.317 
About circular 816, it is very specific. 

00:33:42.137 --> 00:33:46.383 
Previously we had two tables, one was
the investment yield 

00:33:46.383 --> 00:33:47.657 
of commercial housing. 

00:33:48.097 --> 00:33:50.077 
The second table is the investment rate table of social housing. 

00:33:50.077 --> 00:33:51.797 
Then this is not suitable. 

00:33:52.457 --> 00:33:58.144 
And we have proposed and the Ministry of
Construction has also signed a 

00:33:58.144 --> 00:33:59.457 
very appropriate circular. 

00:33:59.857 --> 00:34:02.537 
Currently there is only one investment rate. 

00:34:03.157 --> 00:34:06.838 
There is no such thing as social housing
having this investment rate and 

00:34:06.838 --> 00:34:08.537 
commercial housing having that investment rate. 

00:34:09.157 --> 00:34:12.917 
The Ministry of Construction has just
issued a very clear circular. 

00:34:12.917 --> 00:34:18.102 
and according to circular 1816, the
export market is common for 

00:34:18.102 --> 00:34:19.517 
all construction works. 

00:34:20.077 --> 00:34:24.077 
That is a good thing in this
medieval quality work. 

00:34:25.025 --> 00:34:28.925 
So to erase people's bad impressions
of social housing 

00:34:28.925 --> 00:34:30.745 
So what solutions do we need, Mr. Nguyen Hoang? 

00:34:31.201 --> 00:34:33.081 
I think so 

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We are legally 

00:34:35.001 --> 00:34:36.401 
As Mr. Nghia just said 

00:34:36.401 --> 00:34:39.101 
We have eliminated the quota. 

00:34:39.101 --> 00:34:41.021 
Investment is not possible 

00:34:41.021 --> 00:34:43.181 
And this used to be a bit ridiculous. 

00:34:43.181 --> 00:34:44.921 
Commerce is 100% 

00:34:44.921 --> 00:34:46.821 
And society is only 80% of 

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0.8% of that 

00:34:48.181 --> 00:34:49.761 
Then we have left it. 

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The second one is like I said. 

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That is the economic standard. 

00:34:54.601 --> 00:34:56.701 
As for technical standards, we do not have any. 

00:34:56.701 --> 00:34:58.381 
A standard and also not 

00:34:58.381 --> 00:34:59.981 
Is there a standard? 

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Definition of socialism must be 

00:35:02.541 --> 00:35:04.961 
Lower, lower standards 

00:35:05.581 --> 00:35:08.621 
The third thing is that we have also 

00:35:08.621 --> 00:35:10.761 
Upgrade the warranty process 

00:35:10.761 --> 00:35:12.681 
Investor's now up to 5 years 

00:35:12.681 --> 00:35:14.781 
If there is water seepage, which house has water seepage? 

00:35:14.781 --> 00:35:16.801 
Because we can't manage either. 

00:35:16.801 --> 00:35:18.841 
100% paid by the investor within 5 years 

00:35:18.841 --> 00:35:20.721 
Will have to come to 

00:35:20.721 --> 00:35:22.141 
Look again 

00:35:22.141 --> 00:35:24.301 
Then all the errors will have to be fixed. 

00:35:24.301 --> 00:35:26.381 
Related to what 

00:35:26.381 --> 00:35:27.841 
The investor did not do well. 

00:35:27.841 --> 00:35:29.861 
And one more thing 

00:35:29.861 --> 00:35:32.501 
Then I also really hope that the media agencies 

00:35:32.501 --> 00:35:33.721 
As labor newspaper 

00:35:33.721 --> 00:35:35.921 
We should also communicate what is 

00:35:35.921 --> 00:35:38.121 
Social housing is not 

00:35:38.121 --> 00:35:39.761 
Low quality house 

00:35:39.761 --> 00:35:42.281 
Not low income housing 

00:35:42.818 --> 00:35:47.718 
Yes, recently we have witnessed the
migration of many workers in industrial zones. 

00:35:47.978 --> 00:35:51.492 
Part of the reason for this is that the
standard of living in the city is too 

00:35:51.492 --> 00:35:53.558 
high, and workers' incomes make it impossible to settle down. 

00:35:53.978 --> 00:35:57.218 
Is it true that the policies on workers'
housing are still not suitable to reality? 

00:35:59.035 --> 00:36:03.250 
Then it is true that we must determine
that it is the point of view 

00:36:03.250 --> 00:36:04.655 
of each person, of everyone, 

00:36:05.795 --> 00:36:09.883 
where it is easier to find a job, where
the standard of living is higher, and 

00:36:09.883 --> 00:36:11.415 
where the living conditions are better, 

00:36:11.875 --> 00:36:12.895 
then people will send it there. 

00:36:13.615 --> 00:36:17.175 
Well that is the natural thing that we
all have to strive for. 

00:36:17.835 --> 00:36:24.495 
On that basis, all big cities have a
very high concentration of workers. 

00:36:24.835 --> 00:36:28.435 
So the things we know are Ho Chi
Minh City, then Hanoi City, 

00:36:29.515 --> 00:36:34.875 
Then in big cities, we almost have very
high concentrations of workers. 

00:36:35.735 --> 00:36:40.789 
Because of that standard of living, the
living conditions and especially when 

00:36:40.789 --> 00:36:42.895 
children and dogs are born, 

00:36:43.715 --> 00:36:48.332 
Parents' wish is to give their children
the earliest and best possible 

00:36:48.332 --> 00:36:50.255 
environment to achieve their goals. 

00:36:51.095 --> 00:36:53.195 
On that basis, such migration is inevitable. 

00:36:54.135 --> 00:36:57.635 
And on that basis, our country's
political party has also determined very clearly. 

00:36:59.035 --> 00:37:05.055 
Resources to give to places with high
citizenship, then there are conditions. 

00:37:05.755 --> 00:37:09.735 
But in reality, we still haven't met it. 

00:37:10.755 --> 00:37:16.035 
For example, in Hanoi city, the price we
push up for apartments is very high. 

00:37:17.435 --> 00:37:22.315 
And secondly, other places are very
normal, no price is that high. 

00:37:22.815 --> 00:37:28.795 
Well that is one of the signs that the
demand is very high. 

00:37:30.435 --> 00:37:33.315 
So I think we have to
be more realistic about this. 

00:37:34.415 --> 00:37:38.415 
That is, to build social housing, as Mr.
Nam said, we must determine that 

00:37:38.415 --> 00:37:43.015 
Social housing means housing for
settlement for major social problems. 

00:37:43.715 --> 00:37:46.655 
And people have low income conditions. 

00:37:47.315 --> 00:37:48.475 
That's to be left alone. 

00:37:49.255 --> 00:37:52.075 
That and the fact we have determined
that the migration is very high. 

00:37:52.475 --> 00:37:56.915 
And then we have to have something to
focus resources on to make it happen. 

00:37:59.035 --> 00:38:03.127 
It is very dangerous if we build
resources that are spread 

00:38:03.127 --> 00:38:04.615 
equally across all provinces. 

00:38:05.035 --> 00:38:11.515 
And we need to focus on which cities and
places have large population migration. 

00:38:12.355 --> 00:38:15.835 
and concentrates many industries
and industrial zones. 

00:38:16.315 --> 00:38:20.221 
We should concentrate the housing areas
there so that people can access them and 

00:38:20.221 --> 00:38:21.895 
have a place to settle down. 

00:38:22.507 --> 00:38:25.407 
Besides the proposals of Mr. Le Van
Nghia, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam 

00:38:25.407 --> 00:38:29.127 
What do you think to make social housing
development more effective in the future? 

00:38:30.117 --> 00:38:36.817 
First of all, we have a lot of opinions
that we criticize this and that. 

00:38:36.817 --> 00:38:39.437 
But let me give you a very simple example. 

00:38:39.437 --> 00:38:43.837 
Our country is not rich yet, not poor
anymore but not rich yet. 

00:38:43.837 --> 00:38:47.257 
But on par with our
level of development. 

00:38:47.257 --> 00:38:51.417 
Then we look at many countries, they
have very large slums. 

00:38:51.417 --> 00:38:52.577 
But Vietnam does not have 

00:38:52.577 --> 00:38:58.497 
Without us developing we have a
certain fairness. 

00:38:58.497 --> 00:39:05.137 
What about satisfying 100% of people's
housing needs? 

00:39:05.137 --> 00:39:07.457 
Maybe we will have to struggle a lot. 

00:39:07.457 --> 00:39:12.577 
What we are doing, what we
are actively doing 

00:39:12.577 --> 00:39:14.437 
It also needs to be noted. 

00:39:14.437 --> 00:39:18.477 
We, the party and the state have had
policies on social security. 

00:39:18.477 --> 00:39:20.737 
Including a housing policy. 

00:39:20.737 --> 00:39:22.977 
He loves Vietnam very much. 

00:39:22.977 --> 00:39:26.337 
If there were no social housing policy 

00:39:26.337 --> 00:39:28.477 
Now house prices in Hanoi 

00:39:28.497 --> 00:39:33.177 
And Ho Chi Minh City is at a population
level of 60 to 70 million. 

00:39:34.077 --> 00:39:37.277 
For average apartments not high-end 

00:39:37.277 --> 00:39:42.657 
So how can Gen Z young people buy it? 

00:39:42.657 --> 00:39:46.997 
If you are not talented, you cannot
have a house. 

00:39:46.997 --> 00:39:49.657 
Then we will have
to develop social housing. 

00:39:49.657 --> 00:39:54.577 
We will have to be proactive in
developing social housing. 

00:39:54.577 --> 00:39:57.537 
By the way we have to encourage 

00:39:58.497 --> 00:40:02.157 
Businesses and unions alike are in awe. 

00:40:02.157 --> 00:40:04.377 
Encouragement for the worker 

00:40:04.377 --> 00:40:05.997 
People are more attached to businesses 

00:40:05.997 --> 00:40:07.457 
More connected to the local community 

00:40:07.457 --> 00:40:08.637 
Where people work 

00:40:08.637 --> 00:40:14.857 
As well as how we can be more open. 

00:40:14.857 --> 00:40:16.397 
In the matter of social housing access 

00:40:16.397 --> 00:40:19.557 
We consider that thing
as completely normal. 

00:40:19.557 --> 00:40:22.757 
Not that it is something 

00:40:22.757 --> 00:40:27.206 
It's too high or many voters say that
you have to be on TV 

00:40:27.206 --> 00:40:28.477 
to buy social housing. 

00:40:28.497 --> 00:40:30.037 
I don't think it's that bad. 

00:40:30.037 --> 00:40:32.977 
Of course in the provinces and
cities that are too big 

00:40:32.977 --> 00:40:34.297 
For example Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City 

00:40:34.297 --> 00:40:36.857 
Then the need is too high. 

00:40:36.857 --> 00:40:39.577 
But in other provinces and cities,
we do not record that phenomenon. 

00:40:40.173 --> 00:40:43.893 
Thank you for the great sharing and
contributions of the two guests on today's program. 

00:40:43.893 --> 00:40:46.953 
And ladies and gentlemen, the program
has come to an end. 

00:40:46.953 --> 00:40:48.513 
Thank you for your interest and attention. 

00:40:48.513 --> 00:40:49.993 
And now goodbye and see you again. 

