General Secretary, President: Focus on housing supply suitable for affordability

On the afternoon of October 15th, in Hanoi, the Hanoi National Assembly Delegation organized a working session with the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Committee, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, the People's Court, the People's Procuracy and a number of departments, agencies, and sectors of the city, preparing for the Second Session of the 16th National Assembly.

General Secretary and President To Lam attended the working session.

Also attending the working session were Politburo Member, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Hanoi City Tran Duc Thang; leaders of Hanoi City; National Assembly delegates of Hanoi City Delegation; leaders of city departments and agencies.

Re-research the mechanism for verifying the origin of land

Speaking at the working session, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that it is necessary to concretize the Party's policies, improve the country's development management capacity; study projects in the overall policy; favorable investment regulations must be supported by law, by the Land Law, the Planning Law and synchronous construction. Assigning additional tasks to grassroots levels must take into account sufficient authority and conditions for implementation. The intersection points between laws, between levels and sectors need to be clarified.

The General Secretary and President clearly stated, improving the quality of legislation and ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of the people in the development process. For projects on land, housing, real estate business, investment, and bidding, it is necessary to solve the problems that have been revealed in reality. Policies must create favorable conditions for production and business; and at the same time, ensure fairness and strict management of public resources.

Emphasizing that Hanoi voters also reflected many cases of long-term land use but incomplete dossiers, and slow procedures for issuing certificates, the General Secretary and President suggested that it is necessary to re-examine the mechanism for verifying the origin and process of land use based on grounds in accordance with the law.

Land acquisition must be linked to the resettlement preparation process

According to General Secretary and President To Lam, policies on land prices and financial obligations must be transparent, taking into account practical impacts. Land acquisition must be linked to the process of preparing for resettlement and restoring livelihoods, paying attention to older and middle-aged people who are difficult to change jobs, and early dialogue to help limit disputes later; starting from people's lives to issue policies.

Removing backlog projects must also classify the causes, handle them according to authority and protect the legitimate interests of the parties, not legalize violations, and not transfer damage to innocent people. Housing development must focus on supply suitable to affordability, including social housing and long-term rental housing.

Long-term investment enterprises need to have property rights, need to be protected and policies are implemented consistently. When amending regulations, it is necessary to consider compliance costs and have transitional plans; it is necessary to prevent the re-establishing of business conditions in guiding documents or transferring obligations between agencies into burdens for enterprises.

Projects related to health, insurance, education, and food safety must be considered based on the needs of beneficiaries. Insurance benefits need to go hand in hand with the ability to provide medicines and services; learning policies; schools and teachers need to meet; food safety management must trace the origin, clearly define responsibilities, especially school meals. Related policies with different effectiveness must be handled fairly during the transition period.

Regarding criminal and procedural law, the organization of investigation agencies to fight crime must be associated with protecting human rights, preventing wrongful convictions and controlling power. Regarding the proposal to pilot the recovery and handling of assets related to crimes without conviction, it is necessary to clarify the basis, authority, procedures and ensure the right to debate, and have a mechanism to review the rights and interests of bona fide third parties. The new policy needs to be explained in detail about legal assurances.

General Secretary and President emphasized that decisions on budget plans for high growth must go hand in hand with stabilizing and improving people's lives; promoting the role of the Capital, from Hanoi's practice to contribute to completing general policies; continuing to monitor the results of monitoring the implementation of commitments to voters. The Hanoi National Assembly Delegation emphasized the responsibility of the delegation and each delegate for the issues of the Capital.

Speaking at the working session, Hanoi Party Secretary Tran Duc Thang affirmed that the City National Assembly Delegation thanked and fully absorbed all contents, especially the directional issues of the General Secretary and President to participate in the second session of the 16th National Assembly; will closely coordinate with functional agencies to organize serious implementation with the highest goal of building a civilized, civilized, modern, and happy Capital and improving people's lives, ensuring social justice.

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