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The National Assembly passes the Housing Law (amended)

Continuing the program of the Friday Session, the 15th National Assembly, on the morning of November 27, under the direction of National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh, the National Assembly voted to pass the Housing Law (amended) with 423/4 votes. 468 delegates voted in favor (accounting for 85.63%).

Before the National Assembly voted and presented the Summary Report explaining, receiving and revising the draft Housing Law (amended), Chairman of the National Assembly's Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said, the Standing Committee The National Assembly revised the draft Law in the direction of stipulating that the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor is the governing body of investment projects to build social housing for workers and renters to supplement development investment resources. social housing; Promote the role and responsibility of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor in taking care of and ensuring social security, especially the right to housing, improving quality of life and attracting workers and laborers to participate. Join the Trade Union organization. This plan has high consensus among the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Government, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the majority of opinions of National Assembly delegates; has been revised on the basis of receiving comments from National Assembly delegates after the 5th Session, ensuring strictness, synchronization, high implementation effectiveness, and removing problems in previous pilot practices according to the decision. Decision of the Prime Minister because it is not regulated by the Law. To have a basis for synchronous implementation of this regulation, relevant articles of the draft Law have been absorbed and revised. Specifically, it is stipulated that the capital source for implementing social housing construction investment projects of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor is the union financial source. For social housing construction investment projects using trade union financial resources, the determination of project investors is carried out in accordance with regulations applicable to public investment projects according to the law on public investment. The management and implementation of investment projects will be carried out by the project management unit under the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor in accordance with the provisions of law on public investment...In addition, the Committee The Standing Committee of the National Assembly recognizes that regulations on construction of worker accommodation in industrial parks are necessary to institutionalize Resolution No. 06-NQ/TW of the Politburo on planning, construction, management and sustainable urban development in Vietnam until 2030, with a vision to 2045. To ensure strictness, the National Assembly Standing Committee has directed additional regulations on planning, land fund arrangement, and requirements for investment project to build worker accommodation in industrial parks and assign the Government to regulate conditions to ensure environmental safety, scale and ratio of land area for developing worker accommodation in industrial parks ; Amend Clause 1, Article 19 of the Investment Law to allow the construction of social infrastructure of industrial parks within the industrial park fence... Regarding the construction of worker accommodation outside industrial parks, the Standing Committee The National Assembly proposed not to add this content to the draft Law to avoid loopholes in planning, investment and construction management; Avoid causing conflicts with the Investment Law, Construction Law, laws on land, real estate business related to land allocation, land lease, change of land use purpose, approval of investment policies, conditions as investors... Regarding some issues related to consistency with the draft Land Law (amended), the National Assembly Standing Committee said that social housing construction projects are always associated with With land, the content of social housing needs to have general effect according to the provisions of the Housing Law and the Land Law to ensure the feasibility, consistency and synchronization of the legal system. The draft Land Law (amended) submitted to the National Assembly for discussion at this session does not stipulate an earlier effective date for land for social housing construction; At the same time, it is continuing to research and receive comments from National Assembly delegates to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the next session. Therefore, the National Assembly Standing Committee proposes to agree on the effective date of the (amended) Housing Law from January 1, 2025 to ensure synchronization with the (amended) Land Law passed later. , at the same time ensuring the quality of promulgation of documents detailing and guiding the implementation of the Law. In addition, the contents of receiving and revising the draft Land Law (amended) need to ensure consistency. consistent with the policy contents of the Housing Law (amended) passed by the National Assembly at this session. Those issues are the case of land recovery to implement housing projects; land allocation and land lease for the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to act as the managing agency for social housing construction investment projects; Exemption from land use fees and land rent for projects to develop certain types of housing that are subject to State incentives and incentives; housing mortgage. At the same time, the Land Law needs to have transitional regulations on land allocation, land lease, change of land use purpose, exemption of land use fees and land rent for housing construction investment projects in accordance with the requirements of the Land Law. new land policies./.

Source: Law newspaper