Although many low-income earners expected to have a house, social housing projects in Ho Chi Minh City only meet 5 percent of the demand. One of the main bottlenecks for social housing project construction is the lack of suitable land funds.
The People’s Committee of HCMC on March 9 submitted a report on implementing policies and legislation in the planning in the city to the inspection delegation of National Assembly.
Despite certain positive achievements that Ho Chi Minh City has gained lately in urban planning, it does realize various limits and inadequacies, many of which have led to either suspended planning projects or the inability to meet the society demands. That urges the introduction of special regulations from the Government to help address these matters.
State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the Ho Chi Minh City Delegation of the National Assembly yesterday attended a blended meeting regarding the implementation of planning laws and policies in HCMC since the Law on Planning came into effect.
Seeing that certain land resources in Ho Chi Minh City are underused or abandoned wastefully due mostly to project suspension and legal issues, experts in the field propose that the municipal authorities focus more on methods related to investors and law adjustment.
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen on June 15 worked with the Standing Party Committee and the HCMC Department of Planning and Architecture regarding planning tasks in the city.
Run-down apartment buildings in HCMC have been receiving only minor renovation works due to administrative problems, and HCMC officials are calling for stronger methods to have them rebuilt entirely.
HCMC authorities are looking towards public resources and other forms of suitable funding for the construction and expansion of public parks to manage the use of existing green space for the benefit of local people.
As dozens of localities apply for their own airport in the National Master Plan for Airport Development for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, experts advise against unselective construction that might negatively affect local socio-economy and create national debt.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Department of Planning and Architecture has just finished updating the application ‘HCMC Urban Planning Information’ and launched a new application named ‘Planning Management in HCMC’ online as well as in app stores.
Continuing a working visit to Thailand, the high ranking delegation of Ho Chi Minh City led by the permanent deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, Tran Luu Quang met the local government of Bangkok on November 25 to gain experience in flood control and urban planning, the development of waterway tourism and urban night tourism.
After wrapping up the working visit to Indonesia on August 24, the high-ranking delegation from HCMC led by Secretary of the city Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on the same day visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore. The Secretary emphasized that the visit to Singapore aims to sign cooperation agreements in urban planning and human resource training.
Around 400 Vietnamese and international architects and master planners discussed smart-city strategies and solutions at the 2018 International Conference of Asian-Pacific Planning Societies which opened on August 24 in Ho Chi Minh City.
HCMC People’s Committee yesterday organized a conference calling on investors to implement six urban planning projects to remove 6,223 canal houses with total capital expected to reach VND19,024 billion (US$838 million).
Canal house removal and old apartment block rebuilding are big programs of HCMC which have contributed in changing the city’s look and improving residents’ lives. The municipal authorities have issued transparent policies to lure social resources to attend the programs.
HCMC has traveled one third of the way to implement the 10th city Party Committee’s resolution in the term of 2015-2020. Still obtained results have been initial, unconnected and yet to create clear changes with unspecific solutions.
