The inspection conclusion pointed out a series of violations at three social housing projects in Dong Nai, while demanding a review of buyer applications and selling prices.
Hundreds of social housing purchase applications at three projects in Dong Nai have been recommended for review by the Dong Nai Inspectorate after the agency discovered that many applications contained information that did not match tax and social insurance database records, along with a series of violations during project implementation.
The conclusion of the Dong Nai Inspectorate on compliance with regulations in the sale, lease, and lease-purchase of social housing at three projects in the area pointed out many violations by developers during the sales launch, evaluation of buyer applications, determination of selling prices, and management by competent authorities.
The three inspected projects include the social housing apartment complex in Long Thanh Ward invested by Long Thanh Riverside Joint Stock Company; the social housing project in the Thai Thanh – Thuan Loi residential area by Thuan Loi Thai Thanh Real Estate Company Limited; and the social housing project on a 1.4-hectare land plot in Long Hung Ward invested by Chuong Duong Homeland Joint Stock Company.
Among them, the social housing apartment project in Long Thanh Ward, invested by Long Thanh Riverside Joint Stock Company, with a scale of 628 apartments, had the most violations.
According to the inspection conclusion, the developer publicly announced the sales launch 91 days later than regulated. In the first two sales launches of this year, the application submission period lasted only one day, instead of the minimum of 30 days. Even though the number of registered applications exceeded the number of apartments offered for sale, the enterprise did not organize a lottery to select buyers as required.
Through data comparison, 107 applications were certified by enterprises regarding their status and income, but these were not the places where the applicants actually worked and paid social insurance. There were an additional 151 cases where income was certified, but there was no record of social insurance participation at that specific enterprise. Furthermore, 29 individuals had incomes in 2025 exceeding the threshold to qualify for social housing policies.
A corner of the real estate market in Dong Nai. Photo: Phuoc Tuan
A corner of the real estate market in Dong Nai. Photo: Phuoc Tuan
The inspectors also determined that the developer collected a deposit of 50 million VND for apartments priced under one billion VND, exceeding the regulated limit. The enterprise also included a reasonable and valid cost ratio of 15% of construction investment costs in the selling price plan, which is higher than the regulated norm.
At the social housing project in the Thai Thanh – Thuan Loi residential area, which has a scale of 138 townhouses, the Inspectorate determined that the enterprise did not fully disclose the deadline for receiving purchase applications. The developer also compiled and submitted the list of buyers to the Department of Construction multiple times before the application submission period had ended.
Among the 86 purchase applications received at the project, 76 cases had their income certified by enterprises but had no record of social insurance participation at the certifying entity.
Regarding the social housing project in Long Hung Ward with a scale of 1,098 apartments, the Inspectorate determined that the enterprise was 279 days late in disclosing project information after commencement and failed to report in writing the number of apartments expected to be offered for sale to the regulatory authority.
By the time of the inspection, the developer had signed contracts to sell social housing to 110 customers. Through a random check of 9 applications, the Inspectorate discovered 3 cases where the applicants did not participate in social insurance at the enterprise that certified their applications. The developer also compiled and submitted the list of buyers to the Department of Construction multiple times before the application submission period had ended.
The Dong Nai Inspectorate stated that the Department of Construction had failed to promptly detect errors in the applications forwarded by the developers and had not fully performed its responsibility in inspecting and determining eligible social housing buyers.
The agency recommended that the Department of Construction coordinate with developers to review all applications with information that does not match tax and social insurance database records. Cases ineligible for purchasing social housing will have their contracts canceled and apartments recovered in accordance with regulations; if signs of criminal violations are detected, the files will be transferred to the investigative agency.
The inspection conclusion also pointed out several shortcomings in current regulations on social housing. Accordingly, identifying buyers who do not yet own a home currently relies mainly on information on ownership certificates, while many individuals already own houses but have not registered property ownership rights attached to the land.
Income regulations have also not clarified the concept of “actual received income”, have not taken into account cases where workers have multiple sources of income, and have not regulated the mandatory responsibility of enterprises in certifying income.
Therefore, the Dong Nai Inspectorate proposed that the Government and the Ministry of Construction amend regulations on project information disclosure, sales launch processes, determination of selling prices, and eligibility conditions for purchasing social housing. At the same time, the agency recommended studying the use of tax authority data to verify income instead of the current mechanism where enterprises self-certify.
Phuong Uyen
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