Capital shortage hinders social housing projectsThe social housing development program has achieved 30 percent of the goal of the national housing providing strategies because of a capital shortage, said the Ministry of Construction. As per the statistical figure in localities, 206 social housing projects including 168, 700 apartments are sluggish or halted. Investors of some projects asked to transfer social housing to commercial housing projects. To reach the goal of the social housing development plan in 2016-2020 under the national social housing development strategy, by 2020, the country has targeted 12.5 million square meter of social houses. The export turnover of fruits and vegetables has seen impressive growth in recent years, which topped 1 billion USD in 2015 and 2 billion USD in 2016 and hit 3.5 billion USD in 2017.

Source: VietNamNet News June 06, 2018 12:00 UTC