An individual who seeks to purchase an apartment in a social housing project must not own another apartment in the area where the project is situated, and their total family income must not exceed 30 million VND (1,156 USD) per month.

The Indonesian Government has announced the allocation of a six-month rice aid programme of 2025, aimed at supporting low-income communities, the country’s National Food Agency (Bapanas) has said.

Under a new initiative approved by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, at least one million homes will be built for low-income and industrial park workers by 2030.

The Ministry of Construction (MoC) has submitted a plan to build over 1.8 million apartments under a social housing scheme for low-income earners and workers in industrial zones (IZs) by 2030.

The HCM City Department of Construction plans to speed up the granting of investment licenses for social housing projects and redress administrative procedures to provide housing to low-income residen

A medical research publicised recently in Singapore showed that low-income people in the Southeast Asian country face the risk of getting diabetes because of obesity.

Low-income families have inferior housing, and new policies are needed to deal with the issue, heard a conference in Hanoi on November 5.

The Prime Minister has approved a master project to transfer from a one-dimensional to a multi-dimensional poverty measurement approach for 2016-2020.