Bac Ninh removes housing "bottleneck" for workers

On March 22, at Kinh Bac Cultural Center, the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province organized a meeting with business people in the first quarter of 2025 to share information, accompany businesses, remove difficulties and obstacles, and promote the development of social housing in the province.

Overview of social housing projects in Bac Ninh province

Recognizing the importance of social housing development, in recent times, Bac Ninh province has directed and developed many mechanisms and policies to encourage organizations and individuals to participate in investing in social housing development, ensuring the harmony of interests of the State, enterprises and people. The Provincial People's Committee has established a Steering Committee to remove difficulties and obstacles, promote social housing development; reduce and support administrative procedures, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles in the process of investment, construction and real estate business. Thereby, it has attracted investors to be interested in and actively participate in social housing development.

After more than 10 years of implementing social housing loans, Bac Ninh province has more than 1,600 customers who have borrowed 737.2 billion VND of policy credit capital from the social housing loan program. Up to now, Bac Ninh province has implemented 54 social housing projects for low-income people and housing for industrial park workers, with a total land area of ​​about 173 hectares, providing about 77,000 apartments for more than 231,000 people (of which 6 projects were completed before 2021 and are in operation, providing about 11,000 apartments).

Director of the Department of Construction of Bac Ninh province Nguyen Minh Hieu spoke at the meeting.

At the Program, leaders of the Department of Construction, the Provincial Social Policy Bank, and the State Bank of Region V informed about the results of social housing development, the implementation of lending to organizations and individuals for social housing in the province and some orientations in the coming time. With the message "Sharing information - accompanying businesses to develop".

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan said that in the period of 2021-2030, the rate of social housing and workers' housing in Bac Ninh province accounts for 7.2% of the national rate, such a scale is very large compared to the province's area; Bac Ninh province has gone one step ahead of other localities in developing social housing. It is expected that the projects being implemented and completed in 2026 will create 49,500 units, accounting for 68% of the total 72,200 units (target by 2030).

"Developing social housing and housing for workers is the goal of the Party and State in solving social security issues. In recent times, Bac Ninh province has promptly removed difficulties and obstacles for many projects, creating favorable conditions for project investors and workers to access social housing and housing for workers" - Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee emphasized.

Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan spoke at the meeting.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province requested that localities with projects facing difficulties and problems with site clearance and compensation urgently coordinate with investors to develop a site clearance plan for the remaining areas before April 5 and focus on implementing site clearance and compensation from now until May 30. For 7 projects that have selected investors but do not have investment policies, the Department of Construction is required to coordinate and guide investors so that by April 15, they will have a contract appendix.

"By March 25, the Department of Construction must synthesize all content related to social housing and worker housing, publicly post it on the Electronic Information Portal of departments, branches and localities; coordinate with the Provincial Federation of Labor and investors to propagate social housing policies, information on social housing projects and worker housing at companies and enterprises" - Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province said.

Emphasizing that information on the list of social housing in Bac Ninh province has been publicly announced, investors have the right to access. The Chairman of the Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee requested investors to access early to prepare the best capacity. The Department of Construction was assigned to set up a hotline to support, guide and answer questions about expertise.

In the coming time, the province will strive to create the most favorable environment for enterprises in the industrial park to develop, including developing worker accommodation areas within the service land area of ​​the industrial park, giving priority to enterprises with a large number of workers and large investment scale.