TPO - Due to lack of jobs and being laid off by businesses, thousands of workers in Ho Chi Minh City have returned to their hometowns and never returned, causing many once-crowded and bustling boarding houses in Binh Tan District (Ho Chi Minh City) to become deserted and desolate...
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On October 19, at the boarding house on An Duong Vuong Street (An Lac Ward, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City), although it was the time when workers returned to the boarding house after working at the factory, the boarding house was quite deserted... |
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Since the beginning of 2024, only people have left the boarding house, few have moved in. Previously, there was no work, so many workers returned to their hometowns. Now the factory has orders again, but not many workers have returned," said a female worker. |
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| Tan Tao Ward (Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) used to be known as the “capital of boarding houses” in Ho Chi Minh City, but now it has become deserted and deserted as workers have returned to their hometowns one after another. Some boarding house owners have hung up signs saying “rooms for rent”, “rooms for rent”… for a whole year but have not been able to rent them out. |
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Rewriting the information “room for rent” along with the contact phone number in front of the house, Mr. Hoang Pho Thao (owner of a boarding house in neighborhood 9, Tan Tao ward, Binh Tan district) sighed and said that, in nearly 20 years of running a boarding house business, business has never been as sluggish as it is now. |
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Along the streets around Pouyuen Company such as Tran Van Giau, Tran Thanh Mai, Le Dinh Can… every boarding house has a sign for renting rooms. The landlord even pays a fee to the person who introduces the tenants, but only a few people stay for a short time and then leave… |
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Many boarding houses have rows of more than a dozen rooms, but only a few are occupied. Mr. Nguyen Hoang Le, former Head of Quarter 9, Tan Tao Ward (Binh Tan District) said that there are about 130 boarding houses here, most of the workers renting rooms in the area work at Pouyuen Company. After the pandemic, the company lacked orders so it cut a large number of workers. Most of these workers have returned to their hometowns. Although many businesses currently have jobs and have announced large recruitment announcements, not many workers have returned to the city. |
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| "I have 39 rooms for rent at 1 million VND/month, but currently only 14 rooms are occupied. I have upgraded the rooms, not increased the room price... to keep the tenants, but it still doesn't work. They have all returned to their hometowns due to unemployment!", Mr. Thao said. |
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One of the reasons why workers do not return to Ho Chi Minh City is because they have found jobs in their hometowns. With no customers, many landlords cannot survive and have sold their boarding houses. “To attract guests, most landlords do not increase room rates, but upgrade their rooms to be more comfortable. We also regularly patrol every night to ensure security and order in the neighborhood so that people can live in peace,” said Mr. Le. |
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Late afternoons or weekends are when workers are at their boarding houses, but currently, many boarding houses are still "closed" and the lights are off because no one is renting them. |
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According to Mr. Pham Chanh Trung, Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning of Ho Chi Minh City, since 2021, after the COVID-19 pandemic, Ho Chi Minh City has witnessed a decrease in the number of immigrants for the first time. In 2023, the rate of immigrants will be only 0.67%, equivalent to only about 65,000 people. |
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Landlords talk to tenants to understand their thoughts and wishes in order to provide timely support and solutions, and encourage tenants to stay in Ho Chi Minh City to work. |
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Workers looking for jobs in front of Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone (District 7, HCMC) |
Source: https://tienphong.vn/canh-tuong-la-tai-thu-phu-nha-tro-o-tphcm-post1683942.tpo
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