Speed up the implementation of housing support for poor and near-poor households

19:24, 06/10/2023

On the morning of October 6, the Ministry of Construction held an online conference to promote the implementation of the Housing Support Project for poor and near-poor households in poor districts (referred to as Project 5) under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction. Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh chaired the conference.

At the Dak Lak province bridge, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee H'Yim Kdoh attended and chaired the conference.

According to the report of the Ministry of Construction, in the period of 2022 - 2025, the total support capital from the central budget to implement project 5 is 4,000 billion VND to build and repair houses for 126,780 households in localities. Up to now, the central budget has only provided 1,020/1,620 billion VND for the period of 2022 - 2023.

Currently, 26 provinces have established projects, with a total of 91,453 households needing support to build and repair houses, corresponding to a total capital needing support from the central budget of VND 3,015 billion. By the end of September 2023, 12,877 households were supported, equal to 39.7% of the 2023 plan; over VND 277 billion of capital has been disbursed from the central budget, equal to 27.25%.

Delegates attending the online conference at Dak Lak bridge point

According to the assessment of delegates at the conference, the disbursement of support capital is still slow; the support level is still low, not balanced enough to carry out housing construction according to prescribed standards; some cases are still stuck with land and planning; the integration of support capital sources is still limited...

A representative of the Dak Lak Department of Construction said that according to the 2023 plan, Dak Lak will support housing for 1,921 households (in two poor districts, M'Drak and Ea Sup), with a total implementation capital of over 99.5 billion VND. To date, the central budget has allocated over 51.7 billion VND to Dak Lak (accounting for 81.58% of the total capital) and the provincial budget has also arranged and allocated 7.6 billion VND (accounting for 47.93% of the total capital) to implement Project 5.

Currently, Dak Lak has only supported 13 households (in M'Drak district), the remaining households are continuing to implement. The biggest difficulty of Dak Lak in the process of implementing housing support is determining the land origin of households eligible for support. Therefore, Dak Lak requests that central ministries and branches continue to pay attention, direct and guide the province to remove obstacles in the implementation process. At the same time, promptly arrange funding sources for the province to implement the work to ensure the proposed plan.

Representative of Dak Lak province speaks at the conference

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh highly appreciated the efforts of localities in implementing Project 5, however, the results achieved by many localities are still modest.

Therefore, in the last months of 2023, it is recommended that ministries and branches strengthen supervision, inspection, and promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for localities. At the same time, localities also need to be active, proactive, and closely follow the implementation plan to ensure the completion of the set goals; strengthen propaganda and mobilize organizations and individuals to sponsor and contribute funds to build houses for poor and near-poor households, etc.

The Ministry of Construction will review the recommendations of localities to have written responses and instructions as soon as possible.

Minh Thuan

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