Lê TuyếtHCM CITY – When municipal authorities issued a Decision No.18 in 2011 on granting preferential loans to landlords for building and upgrading houses to rent to workers, it was widely welcomed.

However, six years later, the number of landlords accessing this facility has been very limited, despite the fact that they provide 85 per cent of workers in the city with a place to live.

Phù Nhật Phương, who owns a boarding house for workers on 46-48 Riverside Street, was among the first one to build such a facility in Tân Tạo A Ward, Bình Tân District. Tiếp tục đọc “Workers’ rentals: unrealistic policies don’t help” →