70 percent of workers rent rooms

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A group of migrant construction workers has dinner at a rented room in Hanoi, August 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

 

Over 1.7 million workers in Vietnam are living in boarding houses in an average space per capita of less than three square meters.

 

Industrial hubs across the country, especially Ho Chi Minh City, its neighbor Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, Hanoi and its neighbors Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces, have in recent years attracted millions of migrant workers.

 

More than 1.7 million of these workers, or 70 percent of the total, earn less than VND10 million ($440) per month and currently squeeze themselves and their families into small rented rooms built and operated by local landlords, said Khuat Van Quy, deputy head of the Department of Familial Affairs under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 

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