About 315,000 poor and near-poor households across the countries are facing housing problems and in need of support, according to the Ministry of Construction (MoC). According to MoC Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh, in the 2021-2025 period, there have been two national target programmes with contents on providing housing support to poor and near-poor households – one on boosting socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas and the other on sustainable poverty reduction. Thanks to various policies on housing support to the needy, so far, more than 1 million houses have been built for about 4 million policy beneficiaries and poor households

Source: Vietnam News Agency