Conclusion of the Provincial Party Secretary on building and repairing houses for meritorious people, the poor, and people with housing difficulties

The Steering Committee of Program 1838 has just issued the Notice of Conclusion of the Provincial Party Secretary, Head of the Steering Committee of the program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for people with meritorious services, the poor, and people with housing difficulties in the province.

Accordingly, at the meeting on March 17, 2025, after listening to the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee - Standing Agency of the Steering Committee for the program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for people with meritorious services, the poor, and people with housing difficulties (abbreviated as the Provincial Steering Committee) presenting the Report on the implementation results of the program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for people with meritorious services, the poor, and people with housing difficulties in the province, the orientation of tasks in the coming time and the opinions of the members attending the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee concluded:

About the results achieved:

Leadership and direction: Since the beginning of the year, the Provincial Steering Committee has organized 3 thematic meetings; agencies, units and localities have issued many documents, guiding leadership and direction; established and perfected Steering Committees at all levels, Working Groups for villages and hamlets; established inspection teams (of which, there are 3 teams chaired by the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to inspect in the districts: Que Phong, Quy Chau, Quy Hop, Ky Son, Tuong Duong, Con Cuong, Tan Ky).

Party committees, authorities, and Steering Committees at all levels have focused on directing more resolutely, with a higher sense of responsibility, and achieved positive results: From January 20, 2025 to March 6, 2025 alone, 1,430 houses were started (948 new houses, 482 houses were repaired). 594 houses were completed and handed over (353 new houses, 241 houses were repaired) to the people. Up to this point, the whole province has built and repaired: 12,718 houses (10,268 new houses, 2,450 houses were repaired).

The review work was carried out thoroughly, ensuring the subjects; developing plans, assigning specific tasks; synthesizing, updating, and promptly reporting progress and implementation results to the Provincial and Central Steering Committees.

About existence and limitations:

The number of houses not yet built is still large (districts: Tuong Duong, Ky Son, Thanh Chuong, Yen Thanh, Con Cuong, Quy Chau, Que Phong...). Some districts have a relatively large increase in the number of houses (Tuong Duong district);

The updated data on housing support for meritorious people in some localities is currently inaccurate (districts: Tan Ky, Do Luong, Anh Son, Tuong Duong).

Some localities have not proactively proposed resource allocation, especially the province's counterpart funds, leading to slow implementation progress (Ky Son district, Tuong Duong district).

The inspection and supervision work of the Provincial Steering Committee and the District Steering Committee has not been carried out regularly and continuously; the work of consulting and supporting people in determining and balancing capital sources for house construction has not been carried out systematically.

Contacting and urging organizations, individuals, businesses, and agencies to implement funding for house construction and repair is not thorough. Some provincial departments, branches, and sectors have not yet fulfilled their commitments to support house construction as registered.

Some tasks in the coming time:

The Provincial Steering Committee basically agrees with the tasks and solutions set out in the Report, including the following contents:

Complete the remaining number of houses, including 9,052 houses (4,713 new houses, 4,339 houses repaired), of which: Socialization program is 2,826 houses (1,543 new houses, 1,283 houses repaired); 2 national target programs are 2,391 houses (1,192 new houses, 1,199 houses repaired); program for people with meritorious services is 3,835 houses (1,978 new houses, 1,857 houses repaired).

On implementation resources:

+ For 2 national target programs: The Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, and the Department of Finance coordinate to complete the procedures to provide funding for the subjects, including: central budget, 10% counterpart provincial budget and the remaining funding to ensure the support level for new houses is 60 million VND/house and repairs is 30 million VND/house.

+ For socialized sources: The Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (Standing agency of the Provincial Steering Committee) coordinates with the Department of Finance to promptly allocate funds to localities, with priority given to socialized funds allocated by the Central Government. Funds from sponsors can be exchanged to support additional cases with especially difficult circumstances, purchase additional household equipment or research to support disadvantaged households that have built houses before but have not received support.

+ For the source of the program for people with meritorious services: Agree with the proposal of the Department of Finance, temporarily use the provincial budget and other legal funding sources, and refund after the Central Government allocates funding according to regulations.

Implementation progress:Strive to complete the program before July 31, 2025. Particularly, the program from socialized sources must complete capital arrangement and start construction before April 30, 2025.

To carry out the above tasks, it is recommended that the Provincial Steering Committee, District Steering Committee, relevant departments and branches focus highly, resolutely, and resolutely implement and focus on deploying a number of contents, as follows:

For Steering Committees of districts, cities and towns:

• Review and clearly identify each source of capital for each subject, proactively propose and follow up with provincial agencies to ensure funding for implementation. During the implementation process, if there are any problems, report to the Provincial Steering Committee for timely consideration and handling. In case of failure to report, causing difficulties and delays in progress, the Head of the District Steering Committee must take full responsibility.
• Develop a detailed and specific plan: number of houses started/week/month; number of houses completed/week/month, from which to propose solutions for implementation.
• Focus on mobilizing maximum resources (funding, human resources, raw materials) to speed up construction progress; clearly assign responsibilities to each member of the Steering Committee according to the principle of "5 clear: Clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear results", attaching regular inspection and urging of implementation and attaching responsibilities to the heads of Party committees and Steering Committees from district to commune level.
• Proactively review and resolve related issues, especially land procedures, to create the earliest and best conditions for people to build and repair houses. For 72 Dan Lai ethnic households in Mon Son commune, Con Cuong district, it is recommended that Con Cuong district coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to promptly implement in the spirit of "doing while completing", completing land procedures for people before April 15, 2025.
• Regularly inspect and urge to ensure the requirements on progress and quality of house construction, ensuring "3 criteria: hard ceiling, hard floor, hard wall", Mobilize local resources and the community to actively join hands to support the subjects of house building, in which, pay attention to the time of starting construction in accordance with the customs and practices of the people; establish Advisory Groups to help people balance their family's financial capacity to build a house.
• Continue to review to not miss any beneficiaries, especially those who have difficulty with counterpart funds, are working far away, are sick, etc. Local Party committees and authorities will work directly with and have appropriate plans for these beneficiaries.
• Propaganda for people to share, agree, and respond to the program; at the same time, pay attention to propaganda and mobilize families with working-age members working far away to change their habits and return to work in the province.
• Note to localities: With a large amount of work and a short implementation time, it is necessary to calculate to ensure conditions for labor, materials, etc. If there are any difficulties, please report to the Provincial Steering Committee for timely handling.
• Provincial Fatherland Front Committee - Standing Agency of the Steering Committee:
• Continue to preside over the synthesis of funding sources according to programs and each subject to have a specific and detailed roadmap for implementation. Report on the allocation results, review the implementation of the commitments of the sponsors, agree on the time and solutions for implementation and strive to complete before April 15, 2024.
• Regularly update and review the results of the Steering Committees at all levels to promptly report to the Provincial Steering Committee.
• Urge and remind localities to complete documents and send them to superior agencies to supplement funding sources according to regulations, ensuring the earliest time.
• + For provincial departments, branches and sectors:
• Continue to call for, mobilize and complete the implementation of the commitment registered from the beginning to the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee.
• Department of Finance, Department of Construction, Department of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions: Advise the Provincial Steering Committee, report to the Provincial People's Committee to promptly arrange relevant funding sources (capital from the Central Government, counterpart funds of the province) for localities.
• Regarding the program for people with meritorious services: The Department of Finance shall preside over and coordinate with the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, the Department of Construction and relevant agencies to consider the possibility of temporarily using the provincial budget and other legal funding sources for early implementation, ensuring progress.
• Members of the Provincial Steering Committee and Steering Committees at all levels:
• Continue to fulfill responsibilities, closely follow the implementation progress of the program and assigned areas to focus on directing, inspecting, and urging to ensure the goal of completing the program before July 31, 2025.

* Regarding some recommendations of the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee

• On the consolidation of the Provincial Steering Committee, promulgation of the Regulations on the operation of the Provincial Steering Committee (supplements and amendments); consolidation of the Provincial Steering Committee's Support Team: Agree on the policy, assign the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee to coordinate with the Provincial Party Committee Office to advise on implementation.
• Regarding the proposal for the Central Government to allocate funds from the Central budget: Propose that the Provincial People's Committee direct relevant units to arrange resources from socialized sources to ensure that localities implement according to schedule.
• Propose that the Provincial Steering Committee agree to allocate the provincial budget to provide counterpart funds for the two national target programs, including the 10% counterpart fund as prescribed and the remaining funding to ensure the support level for new houses is 60 million VND/house and repairs is 30 million VND/house: Agree on the policy, assign the Department of Finance to advise.
• Regarding the proposal of Hoang Mai town to use the current socialized resources in the town fund to support 4 households that are beneficiaries of the policy of meritorious people to build and repair houses (2 new constructions, 2 repairs) with a total cost of 180 million VND (not waiting for the Central budget to allocate support), thereby, for Hoang Mai town to complete the program in the second quarter of 2025: Agree on the policy, assign the Steering Committee of Hoang Mai town to implement.
• Regarding the proposal to transfer funding sources for Covid-19 prevention and control: It is proposed to implement in accordance with regulations.

Notify units, localities, members of the Provincial Steering Committee and the Working Group to know and implement; in the process of organizing the implementation, if there are any difficulties or problems, please report to the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee - Standing Agency for synthesis and reporting to the Steering Committee for consideration and resolution according to authority.