The Ministry of Construction has urged the State Bank of Vietnam to study a new credit package for low-income home buyers with a preferential interest rate lower than lending rates provided by commercial banks.
The amended Law on Real Estate Business, the Law on Land and the Law on Housing will help resolve problems, maximise resources and promote the development of the property market and the affordable segment.
The chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, Phan Van Mai, said the city plans to build 1 million units of affordable housing for low-income workers.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has proposed that commercial banks not be allowed to provide preferential loans to low-income people seeking to purchase, lease and lease-purchase social houses.
Thousands of families with school aged children in HCM City are striving to cope with the financial burden of their education as the new school year starts amid the severe income loss caused by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
The monthly inward remittances by low-income earners average 10 times their recipients’ incomes, according to a new report by US payments company UniTeller.
Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) on Friday officially launched the project “Mobile Banking – Financial Inclusion and Economic Empowerment for Low Income People and Women in Viet Nam” - Phase 2 (Mobile Banking 2).
The real estate market has experienced several so-called fever periods in recent years, pushing up property prices to a level that is unaffordable for people with low or modest incomes.
The HCM City Real Estate Association has proposed social housing lending rates to be lowered to 3-3.5 per year to favourable conditions for low-income earners to afford homes.
EVN Finance Joint Stock Company, a subsidiary of the Electricity of Viet Nam Group, on Monday officially launched the consumer finance brand Easy Credit for people on low incomes.
Authorities of HCM City plan to develop projects to build apartments with prices at under VND1 billion (US$43,898) per unit for employees located in the city.
HCM City has asked relevant organisations to accelerate social housing development following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s directive to build homes for low-income earners.