Officially adding a priority group for purchasing social housing.

Couples with two children are given priority to purchase social housing. Photo: Nhu Ha

Couples with two children are given priority in purchasing social housing.

Article 14 of the 2025 Population Law stipulates measures to maintain replacement fertility rates, including:

- In the case of a second child, the maternity leave period for female employees is 7 months; for male employees, it is 10 working days when their wife gives birth.

- Financial support for childbirth is very limited for women from ethnic minority groups.

- Financial support for childbirth for women in provinces and cities with birth rates below the replacement level;

- Financial support for childbirth for women who have given birth to two children before the age of 35;

- Priority will be given to purchasing, lease-purchasing, or renting social housing in accordance with the law on housing for individuals with two or more children;

- Other measures as decided by the Government

Therefore, from July 1, 2026, couples (families) with two or more children will be given priority to buy, lease-purchase, or rent social housing in accordance with the law on housing.

Thirteen groups are eligible for social housing support policies.

Based on Article 76 of the 2023 Housing Law, supplemented by point a, clause 3, Article 29 of the 2025 Population Law (effective from July 1, 2026), the subjects eligible for social housing support policies are as follows:

1. Persons who have rendered meritorious services to the revolution and relatives of martyrs are eligible for housing improvement support as stipulated in the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for Persons Who Have Rendered Meritorious Services to the Revolution.

2. Poor and near-poor households in rural areas.

3. Poor and near-poor households in rural areas frequently affected by natural disasters and climate change.

4. Poor and near-poor households in urban areas.

5. Low-income individuals in urban areas.

6. Workers and employees working at enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions inside and outside industrial zones.

7. Officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers of the People's Armed Forces, police workers, civil servants, defense workers and officials currently serving; cryptography personnel, and other personnel working in cryptography organizations receiving salaries from the state budget.

8. Officials, civil servants, and public employees as defined by the law on officials, civil servants, and public employees.

9. Individuals who have returned public housing as stipulated in Clause 4, Article 125 of the 2023 Housing Law, except in cases where public housing is reclaimed due to violations of the 2023 Housing Law.

10. Households and individuals whose land is subject to expropriation and whose houses must be demolished according to the law, but who have not yet received compensation from the State in the form of housing or land.

11. Students of universities, academies, colleges, vocational schools, and specialized schools as prescribed by law; students of public ethnic boarding schools.

12. Enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions within industrial zones.

13. A person who has two or more children.

Source: Lao Dong Newspaper