Building up a System of Indicators to Measure Social Housing Quality in Vietnam

Abstract Development of social housing is an important and urgent issue that needs the attention of the Government as well as the entire construction industry to meet the welfare needs of regular citizens and to achieve social stability. There always appear two sides of a coin in the development of housing projects: “quality” and “price”. Both of the two elements are important, however cost reduction seems to be of utmost importance to social housing projects rather than quality factor. In fact, the role of construction quality is sometimes considered redundant, which leads to long-term effects for users, and this addresses the reason why people gradually lose faith in social housing provisions. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a system of a workable set of indicators to measure social housing quality. The assessing system is not only beneficial for investors, consultants to apprehend their housing products, but also for regular citizens to make a better choice in buying themselves an apartment, and this is the aim of our research.