Strictly manage, instead of banning mini apartments

10,000 mini apartments

On September 25, HoREA sent a document to the National Assembly Standing Committee, the National Assembly Law Committee, and the Ministry of Construction proposing a number of solutions to ensure construction quality and fire safety for mini apartment buildings, and strictly manage individual houses of individuals and households that are allowed to be built into mini apartment buildings.

According to HoREA, the terrible and catastrophic fire at the mini apartment building No. 37, Alley 29/70, Khuong Ha Street, Khuong Dinh Ward, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi and a number of serious fires that have occurred in the past at apartment buildings or "tube-shaped" townhouses for both residential and business purposes or karaoke businesses... do not meet fire prevention and fighting standards. These houses have only one escape route, continuing to sound the alarm bell and posing an urgent need to build and perfect the legal system on housing, construction, investment, real estate business, fire prevention and fighting and to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of facilities with fire and explosion risks. These include individual houses of individuals and households built into mini apartments and apartment buildings, mini hotels, tube-shaped townhouses for both residential and business purposes, boarding houses with many rooms...

Hidden dangers of mini apartments: Buildings lack fire protection equipment, residents lack escape skills

HoREA believes that the most urgent task at present is for all relevant entities from ministries, branches, provincial, district and grassroots People's Committees to investors and owners of construction works that are facilities with fire and explosion risks, especially mini apartment buildings, to urgently implement the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. At the same time, all relevant entities above need to urgently and seriously implement Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh 's Official Dispatch 825 on implementing the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on strengthening fire prevention and fighting.

On September 20, at the meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue directed the National Assembly's Law Committee to review the draft Law on Housing (amended) under examination and definitely not to legalize mini apartments in the Housing Law.

A rental house with hundreds of rooms in Tan Quy ward, district 7

HoREA agrees with the very decisive direction of the National Assembly Chairman and the association requests not to legalize "disguised" mini apartment buildings, not to legalize the violations of "disguised" mini apartment buildings in the Housing Law. Because mini apartment buildings are still a necessary housing product for society due to their rental and selling prices that are affordable for many people...

HoREA recommends that mini apartments should be managed, not banned, because mini apartments are a very necessary housing product for society today and for many decades to come.

Currently, there are more than 10,000 apartment buildings nationwide. Hanoi alone has up to 2,000 mini apartment buildings according to the report of Hanoi Electricity Corporation. In Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department (PC07), preliminary statistics show that there are currently 42,256 establishments in the area that are boarding houses and rental rooms under the State management of fire prevention and fighting. Of these, 4,490 establishments are managed by the police, of which 103 establishments are at risk of fire and explosion and 37,766 establishments are managed by the People's Committees at the commune level. Concentrated boarding houses and mini apartment buildings are all establishments with fire and explosion risks that are strictly managed in terms of fire prevention and fighting according to the provisions of the law on fire prevention and fighting.

To build a mini apartment, you must have a project.

From the fact that the whole country has thousands of mini apartment buildings with tens of thousands of people living there and the need to rent and buy mini apartment buildings in society is very large, "forcing" us to be very alert and clear-headed in choosing the solution "should manage, should not ban mini apartment buildings". Similarly, countries around the world allow, but must strictly manage this type of mini apartment building to ensure fire safety and healthy development.

Now is a very favorable time to build comprehensive, synchronous and unified legal regulations to manage mini apartment buildings. Because the 15th National Assembly at its 6th session in October and November is expected to review and pass many laws, including the draft Land Law, Housing Law, Real Estate Business Law and a number of related laws to ensure synchronization and unity according to the policy of the Party Central Committee.

The Association proposes to add strict regulations on the type of individual houses and households that are allowed to be built into mini-apartments. At the same time, amending a number of regulations of the Construction Law, Investment Law, Real Estate Business Law, and Fire Prevention Law with the awareness that it is very necessary to "legislate" the type of individual houses and households that are allowed to be built into mini-apartments to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of state management...

In particular, it is necessary to supplement regulations on investment in the construction of mini apartment buildings, which must establish a project; must comply with and comply with legal regulations on appraisal and acceptance of mini apartment buildings, including fire protection works. Supplement regulations on the business of renting or selling mini apartment buildings, which must register for real estate business according to the provisions of law. Supplement regulations on the management and operation of mini apartment buildings similar to the management and operation of apartment buildings, at the same time, the Ministry of Construction supplements technical standards on mini apartment buildings to the National Technical Regulations on apartment buildings, thereby strictly managing and developing safe and healthy mini apartment buildings.

Because the proliferation of mini-apartments has been accompanied by shortcomings and limitations in State management of mini-apartments in recent years, it has led to uncontrolled development and loopholes for business speculators to take advantage. The subjective reason is that current legal regulations are incomplete, inconsistent and inconsistent.

A building with hundreds of rooms has had an additional floor added to it in District 7.

According to Mr. Le Hoang Chau, Chairman of HoREA, mini apartment buildings are not a defective product of the previous period of hot real estate market development as some experts believe, but mini apartment buildings with apartments for rent or for sale are a very necessary housing product for society in the past 13 years, now and possibly in the coming decades.

"Until the Party's goal of becoming a high-income developed country by 2045 is achieved, the need for mini apartments will still exist. Because in society there will always be a class of low-income urban people, workers, laborers, immigrants, who need to buy and rent this type of house, but the requirements for quality, utilities and services will be increasingly higher. Even in developed industrial countries today, there are still mini apartments. Therefore, it is recommended that the State should manage, not ban, mini apartments. We should not ban them because we cannot manage them, but the urgent task is to build a synchronous and unified legal framework to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of State management of mini apartments for safe and healthy development," Mr. Chau suggested.

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