The difficult life of the old apartment complex in Vinh street
(Baonghean.vn) - Deterioration, slovenliness, crampedness, dampness, dilapidation... are the common conditions of many apartment buildings over 30 years old in Vinh city.
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| Vinh Textile Factory collective housing area seen from above. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Vu Thi Thuy's family has 4 people, her husband, her children and her husband. In 1991, Thuy and her husband were allocated a 27m2 apartment.2Roofing tiles in the collective housing area of Hoang Thi Loan Knitting Factory (K10, Ben Thuy Ward, Vinh City).
Due to the increasing demand, Ms. Thuy's family and 24 other households here have shared the corridor, porch and taken advantage of other empty spaces to cover and expand the living space. Recently, because the apartment is too cramped and degraded, she had to rent another room for her eldest son who just got married to live separately.
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| Dirty, narrow walkways, patchwork houses. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
In the same situation as Ms. Thuy, 246 households in Vinh Textile Factory Collective Area (blocks 7 and 9, Ben Thuy ward) are living in cramped, dilapidated apartments.
"After more than 30 years of use, many buildings have seriously degraded and are no longer safe for users. Outdated and unsynchronized technical infrastructure and poor environmental sanitation make the lives of people here extremely inconvenient," said Mr. Le Van Duong, from the Vinh Textile Factory housing complex in Block 7, Ben Thuy Ward.
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| Arbitrary extensions on weak house frames pose many potential safety risks. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
According to statistics, Vinh city has 156 collective housing areas located in 20 wards and communes with 4,036 households living there. Most of the people living here are retired officials and employees with low incomes who cannot afford to buy land to build their own houses. Others are outsiders who have bought or rented collective housing units that have been priced.
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| The expanded area for pig farming causes environmental pollution of a household in the Textile Factory's collective housing area. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Most of these apartment buildings were built before the 1990s, mainly single-storey houses with tiled or asbestos-cement roofs. Each building has a scale of 5-7 rooms with a 3.0-3.3m space, a span of 5.0-7.0m, a construction area of 75-162m2, and an apartment area of 15-23m2. Due to lack of renovation or upgrading during use, they have seriously degraded.
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| Family meal of Ms. Vu Thi Thuy in 27m2 apartment2, Hoang Thi Loan Knitting Collective. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Facilities serving daily activities such as kitchens and toilets are temporarily covered, cramped, do not meet minimum usage requirements, and lack environmental sanitation conditions for people living in the apartment building, people in the area as well as the urban landscape.
In addition, some collective housing areas do not completely belong to agencies, units or ward and commune authorities, so the management of security and order in the area is difficult and complicated.
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| Old, degraded apartment buildings affect the urban landscape. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
| Implementing the Project to resolve old collective housing in the area approved by Nghe An Provincial People's Committee under Decision No. 109/2007/QD-UBND dated September 21, 2007, up to now, Vinh City People's Committee has resolved 110/156 collective housing areas (reaching a rate of 71.15%) with 2,875/4,036 households (reaching a rate of 71.23%); proposed to remove 22 collective housing areas from the Project to resolve later. From now until the end of 2017, there are 24 collective housing areas that need to be resolved./. |
Thanh Cuong
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