Since the beginning of 2025, the northern mountainous province of Son La has eliminated makeshift and dilapidated houses for 3,058 families, fulfilling 100% of its target.

In 2025, Yen Bai launched a programme to eliminate temporary and dilapidated homes, aiming to support all 2,208 homes, with an estimated cost of 120.69 billion VND (4.7 million USD). The province aims to complete this goal before August 30.

According to Tran Phu Loc Thanh, Director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Environment, work has started on all 531 houses designated for renovation or reconstruction, benefiting poor households, near-poor families, and people with meritorious service to the nation, with 141 homes already completed and handed over to beneficiaries.

In 2025, the southwestern province plans to rebuild or renovate 567 houses under its temporary housing eradication plan, including 443 new constructions and 124 repairs, with an estimated budget of over 44.8 billion VND (1.75 million USD).

Bac Lieu has set ambitious housing goals, planning to construct and renovate 2,883 houses for revolution contributors, 1,760 for poor and near-poor households, and 176 for ethnic minority families. The province estimates nearly 263 billion VND will be needed to achieve these targets.

Dak Lak province currently has 5,405 households in need of housing improvements, including 4,285 requiring new homes and 1,120 needing repairs.

The central province of Quang Tri is intensifying efforts to eliminate inadequate housing for poor and near-poor households by leveraging government funds and community contributions.

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai is intensifying efforts to eliminate substandard houses, aiming to support the construction or repair of 8,178 homes for poor and near-poor households and revolution contributors in 2025.

A series of groundbreaking ceremonies to build and repair houses for poor and near-poor households were organised in Hanoi's 15 districts and townships on April 3 as part of activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2024) and welcome the Congresses of the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels for the 2024 - 2029 tenure.

A working delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on January 28 paid a visit to the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.

Nearly 21,000 poor households and policy beneficiaries have so far gained access to loans to resume production, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) branch in the northern province of Phu Tho.

Vietnam’s experience in poverty reduction and the country’s programmes and policies to eliminate poverty and improve people’s living conditions and life quality were discussed at a webinar held recently in Toronto, Canada.

A nutrition project has been launched by Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Central Committee, aiming to provide nutritious meals for children and improve their stature, especially those with difficult circumstances in mountainous and ethnic minority areas.

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has mobilised the whole political system and community to build houses for local impoverished people, with thousands of houses built over the past two years. The houses are a vivid illustration of the efforts of local authorities as well as the enthusiastic support of the community.

The annual charity programme 'Joining hands for the poor' was held in Hanoi on October 17. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the event. ".

For many years, local people in the Quang Binh coastal province have been in worries as the flooding season comes as they would be isolated. The new cement bridge will change the situation.

Dang Quang Huu, 44, of Dakrong district in the central province of Quang Tri, is known as a bank owner who has risen from owning nothing to offering loans to 600 poor local households.

The Bank for Social Policies in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has carried out a lot of measures to help ethnic people living under and near the poverty line gain access to preferential loans.

As many as 178 firms have donated more than 32 billion VND (1.4 million USD) to help disadvantaged residents in the central province of Nghe An enjoy the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Bac Kan has devised a range of measures to improve the lives of locals from ethnic minority groups, thus narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor as well as between geographic areas.