Between 2014 and 2017, a total of over 180 billion VND from the city budget and other financial sources went to help a total of 6,300 local social policy families build new houses or repair their downgraded ones.

A local social policy beneficiary (right) showing his happiness with his already-repaired house

Ms Le Thi Chat from Ngu Hanh Son District’s Khue My Ward, a martyr’s daughter, is one of the beneficiaries from the city’s meaningful programme for building and refurbishing houses, said she felt secured whilst living in her new house after many years of dream. 

She added that 60 million VND out of her house’s construction costs was granted by the programme budget.

By the end of this year, a total of around 80 billion VND from the city budget and other financial sources will have gone to help a total of 627 social policy families build new houses and 1,830 others repair their downgraded ones.

To date, about 60 billion VND has been spent for the building and refurbishing of houses for locals who gave great service in the national revolution.

As of 25 May this year, a total of 1,690 local social policy families have had their houses built or repaired.

Mr Vo Cong Chanh, the Lien Chieu District Party Committee, said, within this year alone, a total of 300 social policy families are in need of building new houses and repairing their deteriorated ones, at an estimated cost of around 10 billion VND. To date, 241 new houses for these families have been built across the district.

During his recent inspection visits to the construction sites of the new houses, municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary Vo Cong Tri asked related agencies to ensure that the construction and refurbishment must be completed no later than 27 July in order to mark the 71^st anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day.

He asked special heed to be paid to re-checking local social policy families who are living in degraded houses in order to put them onto the list of social policy beneficiaries in need of help for the near future.

In particular, local inhabitants should be encouraged to become more actively and enthusiastically engaged in enhancing the living conditions of social policy families residing in their residential areas.