Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 193, 2018
International Scientific Conference Environmental Science for Construction Industry – ESCI 2018
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Article Number | 01001 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Sustainable Strategies of Urban Planning | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819301001 | |
Published online | 20 August 2018 |
Towards eco-social housing in Vietnam: challenges and opportunities
Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, 196 Pasteur, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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Corresponding author : tuan.tranhuuanh@uah.edu.vn
Since Doi Moi (Reform) policy in 1986, Vietnam has experienced rapid urbanization and economic growth. Urbanization has resulted in increasingly high housing demand in the urban areas but this has largely unmet, especially housing for low-income people. Development of social housing for low-income and under-privileged people in cities has been seen as an urgent and important task of the government to pursue stable social and economic development. Low-income people are most vulnerable to environmental impacts and in need of energy-efficient houses to reduce their cost of living. Eco-social housing is seen as a solution to protect the natural environment as well as to boost local economy, improve living conditions particularly for low income people. Through preliminary assessments of three social buildings at three distinct regions of Vietnam, this paper found that despite many challenges, eco-social housing is a solution to Vietnam's needs in providing houses with adequate living conditions to low-income people while protecting the environment and achieving sustainable eco-social development in the long run.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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