Buying social housing: Expanding criteria for determining conditions of no housing

The Government issued Decree No. 54/2026/ND-CP (effective February 9, 2026) amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decrees in the field of housing and real estate business. Among them, noteworthy are regulations on social housing.

Regarding the conditions for enjoying social housing support policies, Decree No. 54/2026/ND-CP amends and supplements Clause 1, Article 29 of Decree No. 100/2024/ND-CP on housing conditions in the direction of expanding the criteria for determining conditions for not having housing, including cases where there is no housing information in the Certificate and it does not depend on the time of submitting applications to buy or lease-purchase social housing. At the same time, the authority to confirm is also regulated in a broader direction, which is to assign it to the competent authority to issue a Certificate according to land law. Specifically:

1. Cases where there is no housing owned by them are determined when the subject specified in Clause 1, Article 77 of the Housing Law and the spouse of that subject (if any) are determined to have no name or no housing information content in the Certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land in the province or centrally-run city where that social housing project is located.

Within 7 days from the date of receiving the request for confirmation of housing conditions, the competent authority issuing the Certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land according to the provisions of land law in the province or centrally-run city where there is a social housing project certified according to the provisions of this clause.

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