From August 1, 2024, the subjects eligible to buy social housing will be expanded.

In the Housing Law, No. 27/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly, officially effective from August 1, 2024, the subjects eligible to buy social housing have been expanded.

From August 1, 2024, the subjects eligible to buy social housing will be expanded. Illustration photo: Hai Nguyen

Accordingly, regarding the subjects entitled to social housing support policies, the Housing Law 2023 has added the case of enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions in industrial parks. Specifically, Article 76 of the Housing Law, No. 27/2023/QH15 stipulates that there are 12 subjects entitled to social housing support policies, including: - People with meritorious services to the revolution, relatives of martyrs who are eligible for housing improvement support according to the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution. - Poor households and near-poor households in rural areas. - Poor households and near-poor households in rural areas in areas frequently affected by natural disasters and climate change. - Poor households and near-poor households in urban areas. - Low-income people in urban areas. - Workers and laborers working at enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions inside and outside industrial parks. - Officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers of the armed forces, police workers, civil servants, defense workers and public employees currently serving in the army; people working in secret services, people working in other secret services organizations receiving salaries from the state budget. - Cadres, civil servants and public employees as prescribed by law on cadres, civil servants and public employees. - Subjects who have returned public housing as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 125 of this Law, except for cases where public housing is revoked due to violations of the provisions of this Law. - Households and individuals whose land is revoked and whose houses must be cleared or demolished as prescribed by law but have not yet received compensation from the State in the form of housing or residential land. - Students of universities, academies, colleges, vocational schools, specialized schools as prescribed by law; students of public boarding schools for ethnic minorities. - Enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions in industrial parks. Thus, the 2023 Housing Law has added 2 more groups of subjects to enjoy social housing support policies compared to the current ones: (1) Poor and near-poor households in urban areas. (2) Enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions in industrial zones. To enjoy social housing support policies, the above subjects must meet certain conditions in Article 78, for example: - Not having their own house in the area where the social housing construction investment project is located, not having purchased or leased social housing, not having enjoyed housing support policies in any form; - Meeting income conditions as prescribed...

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