Dong Nai exceeds government-assigned targets for social housing development

In 2025, Dong Nai recorded notable achievements across multiple sectors, including social housing development, which surpassed targets assigned by the Government. This outcome has made an important contribution to ensuring social welfare, materializing the goal of people-centered sustainable development, while also providing additional support for the real estate market to grow in a safe and healthy manner.

Leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People’s Committee perform the ground-breaking ceremony for Phase 2 of a social housing project with a scale of 1,200 apartments in Phuoc Tan ward in December 2025.

Behind these impressive results lies the strong determination and decisive leadership in direction and administration, proactive efforts to remove obstacles for investors, as well as the timely and effective implementation of new central government policies. Member of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of Dong Nai People’s Committee Ho Van Ha shared insights on the significance of these achievements, key solutions, and future orientations to ensure housing social security for the people.

Member of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Dong Nai People’s Committee Ho Van Ha. Photo: Hoang Loc

In 2025, Dong Nai exceeded the social housing development targets assigned by the Prime Minister. How do you assess the significance of this result for social welfare and real estate market stability?

In 2025, Dong Nai province (including the former Binh Phuoc province) was assigned by the Prime Minister to complete more than 4,200 social housing units. In reality, the province delivered over 4,600 units, reaching 112% of the assigned target. This is a highly meaningful result, reflecting the strong determination of the entire political system to concretize major policies of the Party and the State on ensuring social welfare, especially for workers, laborers and low-income groups.

First, in terms of social welfare, this achievement directly helps address urgent housing needs for thousands of households, including families whose land was recovered for projects but who were not eligible for resettlement, as well as officials, civil servants, public employees, armed forces personnel, and workers. This enables them to settle down and work long term in the locality. Social housing is not merely a place to live, but also a foundation for stabilizing livelihoods and fostering long-term attachment to agencies, enterprises and local communities. Through this, it contributes to retaining human resources for a major industrial province like Dong Nai.

Regarding the real estate market, accelerating social housing development has helped rebalance the product structure by increasing supply in segments with high demand and affordability for the majority of people. This helps limit supply-demand mismatches and reduce pressure on the high-end commercial housing segment, thereby contributing to stabilizing the real estate market in a sustainable and transparent direction.

More importantly, surpassing the target in 2025 creates a solid foundation for Dong Nai to continue pursuing the goal of completing at least 65,000 social housing units by 2030, linking housing development with synchronized urban development, technical infrastructure and social infrastructure to improve people’s quality of life.

The achieved outcomes stem from the province’s clear determination to treat social housing development as a key political task, implemented consistently and decisively, with clear roadmaps and priorities.

First, the province strengthened centralized and unified leadership and administration. The provincial People’s Committee established a steering committee for social housing development, clearly assigning responsibilities to each department, sector and locality, and linking the accountability of unit heads with implementation progress and results, under the principle of “clear people, clear tasks, clear responsibilities, clear authority, clear timelines and clear outcomes.”

Second, the province proactively addressed planning and land funds. Dong Nai reviewed and allocated land for social housing development in a systematic and long-term manner, with a total area exceeding 1,000 hectares, including both standalone social housing projects and the mandatory 20% land allocation within commercial housing projects. The consistent viewpoint is that social housing must be associated with transport infrastructure, healthcare, education and essential services, ensuring living quality for residents.

Third, the province promoted administrative procedure reform and created a “priority lane” for social housing projects. Processing times were reduced by at least 50 percent, and projects were placed in a “green channel” for appraisal, construction permitting, fire prevention and fighting, and certification of eligibility for sale, lease or hire-purchase. These measures helped enterprises deploy projects sooner and reduce investment costs and risks.

At the same time, the province proactively and promptly implemented new central government mechanisms and policies, especially pilot mechanisms for appointing investors to create breakthroughs in shortening investor selection procedures and accelerating project commencement. The province also strengthened companionship and problem-solving support for enterprises throughout project implementation.

It can be affirmed that the synchronized combination of political determination, appropriate policy mechanisms, and strong reforms in implementation organization has been the key factor behind Dong Nai’s notable achievements in social housing development. This forms a solid foundation for the 2026–2030 period.

In 2025, Dong Nai completed more than 4,600 social housing units, reaching 112% of the target assigned by the Prime Minister, the best result the province has achieved in the past 10 years. The Resolution of the first Provincial Party Congress for the 2025–2030 term sets the goal of completing 65,000 social housing units by 2030.

For the public, especially workers and low-income earners, the province affirms that social housing is an important social welfare policy and a responsibility of the government. Dong Nai consistently places people at the center of development, viewing the provision of stable, safe housing suitable to affordability as the foundation for people to work with peace of mind and maintain long-term attachment to the locality.

In the coming period, Dong Nai will not pursue social housing development based solely on quantity, but will focus on construction quality and living space quality, ensuring full access to essential services, while implementing projects in a transparent manner and ensuring correct beneficiaries.

It must be reaffirmed that Dong Nai remains consistent with the goal of rapid yet sustainable development. Social housing serves as a bridge between economic growth and social welfare, between investment attraction and improvement of people’s quality of life.

By Hoang Loc – Translated by M.Nguyet, Thu Ha