Before the typhoon, all 303 households at buildings A7 and A8 in the Van My Apartment Complex in Ngo Quyen District had been evacuated, as the two blocks had severely deteriorated.

The buildings were deeply submerged due to torrential rain triggered by the typhoon, worsening their situation. In particular, Building A7 began to tilt, and large cracks appeared after the typhoon.

Le Chuong, vice chairman of Ngo Quyen District, said the buildings were built in the 1970s and have badly deteriorated.

"We've had to evacuate residents during major storms in recent years," the official said. "These buildings are no longer safe because they could collapse anytime. Most households are moving to other apartment buildings, while those who arrange their own housing will receive VND3 million a month.

Pham Thi Tiep, 80, a resident of Building A8, said that her family had lived in a 30-square-metre apartment for nearly 20 years, and it now had many cracks following the storm.

"Now we're temporarily relocated to a 50-square-metre apartment in the HH1 Dong Quoc Binh building in the city centre," Tiep said.

According to Nguyen Thanh Hung, the director of the Haiphong Construction Department, the city plans to relocate 2,600 households from 75 old apartment buildings facing collapse.

Haiphong is among the localities heavily devastated by the typhoon, with 27,000 houses damaged. The city will compensate the affected households by allowing them to lease or buy low-cost houses.