Decision 2161/QD-TTg 2021 the national housing development strategy for the 2021-2030 period

DECISION

Approving the national housing development strategy for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision toward 2045^[1]

THE PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the June 19, 2015 Law on Organization of the Government; and the November 22, 2019 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Organization of the Government and the Law on Organization of Local Administration;

Pursuant to the November 25, 2014 Housing Law;

Pursuant to the socio-economic development strategy for the 2021-2030 period;

At the proposal of the Minister of Construction,

DECIDES:

Article 1. To approve the national housing development strategy for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision toward 2045 (below referred to as the Strategy), with the following principal contents:

I. VIEWPOINTS

1. To have appropriate and safe residences is one of the fundamental human rights and a condition necessary for comprehensive human development, which, at the same time, constitutes as a decisive factor for development of human resources to serve the national development. Housing development is a responsibility of the State, the society and the people.

2. Housing development is one of important contents of socio-economic development policies; the State shall encourage all economic sectors to develop housing under the market mechanism to meet every need of the people and, at the same time, adopt policies to provide housing support to social policy beneficiaries, low-income earners and the poor that meet housing difficulties in order to contribute to political stabilization, social security assurance and urban and rural development toward civilization and modernity.

3. Housing development in localities must be associated with development of the housing realty market, in line with local housing development programs and plans in each period, and compliant with the housing law and master plans and plans approved by competent agencies, ensuring completeness of technical and social infrastructure facilities; housing development must be based on economical use of resources, particularly land resource; and management of house construction should be intensified.

4. Housing development must ensure safety and satisfy conditions on construction quality, architecture, landscape, comfort and environmental protection; adequate capacity to respond to climate change, natural disasters and epidemics, energy conservation, sustainable development, and low emissions according to technical regulations and standards issued by competent agencies.

5. To develop diversified housing types, attaching importance to developing social houses, condominiums, houses for rent, and houses for industrial-park workers, with a view to basically meeting the people’s housing demand, especially in urban areas, striving for housing development in rural areas in association with the national target program on building of a new countryside.