Nghe An completed more than 3,000 houses for poor households and households with housing difficulties in nearly 6 months.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee, Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee; and members of the Steering Committee.

MORE THAN 636 BILLION VND SUPPORTED THE HOUSING PROGRAM FOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS

According to initial screening by localities, the province currently has 13,814 cases in need of support for housing construction and repair, including 3,107 prefabricated houses, 6,818 new houses and 3,889 houses in need of repair.

As of June 30, 2023, 148 organizations and individuals registered to support the Program with a total of 12,549 houses registered for support, equivalent to VND 636,092 billion; of which 6,761 houses registered for implementation in 2023. The whole province has received support for the program in many forms with a converted amount of VND 262,641 billion.

100% of district and commune levels established Steering Committees and 100% of villages, hamlets, blocks and communes established Working Groups with a total number of members participating at provincial, district, commune and hamlet levels of 34,847 members.

With the above synchronous participation, by the end of June, the total number of houses built and under construction was 3,076, of which 2,925 were completed and put into use. However, up to now, the Public Security sector has completed the construction of 2,820 prefabricated houses for people, so the actual completion number is higher. The goal in 2023 of Nghe An province is to build 5,000 new houses and repair 500 houses for poor households and households with housing difficulties.

At the meeting, members of the Provincial Steering Committee discussed and reviewed the results after 6 months of implementing the program, the problems and difficulties that arose; shortcomings and limitations. On that basis, they discussed and agreed on tasks in the coming time.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu agreed to provide additional support from the province's mobilized resources for households that benefit from house construction support to ensure that each house is supported with 50 million VND; at the same time, he also proposed to conduct a survey of poor households with housing difficulties to consider specific wishes on the housing model to be implemented.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong also proposed to step up propaganda work, especially promoting the role of Working Groups in hamlets and villages in propagating to the people; conducting reviews, classifications, and firmly grasping the aspirations associated with commitments of poor households and households with housing difficulties; thereby speeding up the implementation progress.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung suggested that the Provincial Steering Committee should continue to pay attention and focus on directing localities to implement the program; at the same time, it is necessary to clearly identify the classification and registration of housing needs, especially to carry out propaganda and mobilization work, so that poor households with housing difficulties can choose the implementation method suitable to their conditions.

Regarding the proposal for the province to support localities with resources to build foundations for houses for poor households, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that it is necessary to consider the local reality. If there are any real difficulties and no real resources, the province will support; and localities need to take the initiative to implement, avoiding the mindset of waiting and relying on the provincial level.

COMPLETE APPROVAL OF THE LIST OF SUBJECTS NEEDING SUPPORT BEFORE 7/30/2023

Concluding the meeting, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy highly appreciated the sense of responsibility and efforts of the Standing Office and the Steering Committee's Support Team in performing their tasks.

The Provincial Steering Committee acknowledged and commended the highly responsible contributions, pioneering spirit and determination of the leaders, officers and soldiers of the Provincial Police in responding to the implementation of the program.

Through the practice after 6 months of implementing the campaign, supporting the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with difficult housing circumstances in the province, the Provincial Party Secretary concluded 4 lessons: having the right, drastic policy, in line with the people's wishes, creating a very strong spreading force; implementing it methodically and elaborately; arousing and promoting the people's strength, creating a festival, a campaign to build houses for poor households and households with difficult housing conditions; working hard, making the most of it to mobilize the support and contributions of kind-hearted people from inside and outside the province, including abroad, to help poor households.

Regarding the tasks in the coming time, based on the analysis of the positive and negative aspects in the past time, the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee requested to focus on promoting propaganda about the purpose and meaning to the people; in which the core is Nghe An Newspaper, the provincial Radio and Television Station to carry out in-depth topics on the program to propagate policies, methods, promote people's strength, and models, thereby creating a spreading effect.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Head of the Program Steering Committee requested to focus on urging and directing localities to complete the approval of the list of subjects in need of housing support, the deadline is July 30, 2023.

Regarding the implementation of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction and the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, Nghe An is supported with 7,466 houses for the poor with a new construction support level of 40 million VND/newly built house and the province's counterpart contribution of 10% equivalent to 4 million VND.

However, to ensure fairness for poor households benefiting from the above national target programs and households supported by the Program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with difficult housing circumstances in Nghe An province implemented by the province, the Provincial Party Secretary agreed with the opinion of the Steering Committee that the remaining part (in addition to the Central and provincial counterpart funds as prescribed) will be allocated from the program's fund source to ensure that households supported to build houses under national target programs are supported with 50 million VND/newly built house like households benefiting from the provincial program. Therefore, comrade Thai Thanh Quy suggested that localities conduct a review to prioritize implementation for households benefiting from national target programs.

The Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also agreed with the Steering Committee that they have not yet considered supporting funding for house foundations during this period, but suggested that the locality focus on calling for, mobilizing, and supporting house foundations; associated with in-depth propaganda with working groups of villages, hamlets, and blocks; and compiled a list of households needing to build new houses, associated with people's wishes and commitments on the implemented housing model.

To avoid duplication in the mobilization and support process, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the Provincial Agencies Party Committee and the Provincial Enterprises Party Committee, as well as provincial departments, branches and sectors, not to directly go down to implement each grassroots housing project but to transfer mobilized resources to the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee for coordination, allocation and implementation.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also agreed on the plan to organize a conference to review and evaluate the results of the implementation of 2,820 prefabricated houses mobilized by the Public Security sector to support 6 border districts in July 2023; at the same time, he requested the Provincial Public Security to continue to help build all prefabricated houses in the whole province when there are households registering.

The Head of the Provincial Steering Committee agreed to add comrade Nguyen Dinh Hung, who has just taken on the role of Chief of the Provincial Party Committee Office, and comrade Hoang Quoc Viet - Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to the Provincial Steering Committee; requested to continue reviewing units that registered to support the construction of houses for poor households and households with housing difficulties in 2023, 2024, 2025 to continue to urge.