A resettlement apartment building in Hoang Mai District.
Den Lu Resettlement Area located in Hoang Mai District has three high-rise buildings with hundreds of apartments. Finished in 2017, the project has been abandoned.
One of the project’s buildings was used as a field hospital for Covid-19 treatment.
Resettlement Area N3-N4-N5 in Sai Dong New Urban Area in Long Bien District is home to 150 apartments. But it has also been left deserted for years.
The same situation has also been reported in different resettlement areas such as Nam Trung Yen in Cau Giay District and Tran Phu in Hoang Mai District.
Hanoi is home to 199 resettlement buildings with a total number of 17,957 apartments, but to date, hundreds of apartments have been left unused.
Meanwhile, many buildings lack the required facilities such as basements, and waste treatment and fire prevention and control systems.
Lots of resettlement areas are quite far from schools and hospitals and are inconvenient for transport connections.
Some resettlement apartment projects have struggled with difficulties in compensation or a lack of capital.
