Industries Unoccupied Hanoi villas get makeover as cheap boarding houses

Unfinished villas in Hanoi's Nam An Khanh Urban Area where Huu and dozens of manual laborers live. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

Thousands of villas and semi-detached houses in Hanoi remain unused, with many temporarily being converted into low-cost housing.

Nguyen Thi Huu, 40, from the northern province of Vinh Phuc is among dozens of manual laborers living in unfinished villas built years ago in Nam An Khanh Urban Area in the rural Hoai Duc district.

The houses have no electricity, plumbing or doors, and the tenants have to use tarpaulins and cartons to create makeshift bathrooms and curtains. They plug into electricity systems in distant places, mostly illegally.

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