Provincial National Assembly Delegation collects comments on Housing Law Project

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of October 7, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation held a conference to collect comments on the Draft Law on Housing (amended). Comrade Pham Van Tan, Provincial Party Committee member, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired the Conference.

The Housing Law Project (amended) consists of 8 chapters and 178 articles and will be submitted to the National Assembly for approval at the 8th session. At the conference, giving comments on the Law Project, the representative of the Department of Construction said that the Draft Law has not clearly affirmed the role of the State in the housing market and social housing investment, and proposed that the State be responsible for investing and constructing social housing.

Regarding public housing, opinions suggested that there was no need to classify central public housing and local public housing; concerns were raised that the subjects eligible to rent public housing are teachers, doctors, and medical staff assigned to work in remote communes, areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, border areas, and islands, which would face financial difficulties during implementation.

Conference overview

Regarding land use rights and home ownership rights, delegates suggested that it is necessary to clearly define these two rights, because these are two completely different rights and to resolve the case where on one plot of land there is one construction or many constructions with multiple owners.

Regarding the Social Housing Development Fund: the establishment of the Social Housing Development Fund has been stipulated in the Housing Law 2005, however, mobilizing capital for this Fund is very difficult and in reality in Nghe An and some other provinces and cities it has not been implemented, so it is proposed not to include the provision on the establishment of this Fund in the Draft Law.

Delegates proposed that based on the age of use according to the level of the building or periodic reports on the status of the apartment building (by the investor, owner, apartment building management board, local authorities), the organization should invite a qualified independent unit to assess the quality of the building before deciding to demolish it. Comments on Article 15 on the Local Housing Development Program and Plan: suggest adding regulations on responsibilities in investigating, surveying, and collecting statistics on people's housing needs before developing local housing development programs and plans. In Article 101 on the Apartment Building Conference, suggest adding regulations on the time of organizing the Apartment Building Conference.

On behalf of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province, comrade Pham Van Tan received the opinions to summarize and reflect at the upcoming 8th session of the 13th National Assembly.

News, photos:Ky Thanh