Residents in Da Nang worried sick about rundown tenement
Friday, October 25, 2024, 18:23 GMT+7
After nearly 20 years of use, the An Cu 5 apartment complex in Son Tra District, Da Nang has fallen into a state of complete disrepair, leaving residents increasingly uneasy.
Over 60 families live in blocks A and B of the ramshackle apartments.
The tenement opened in 2007.
According to Nguyen Chien, his apartment’s walls are cracking and the window of the bedroom was already broken.
“Concrete slabs from the ceiling sometimes fall on me when I am lying down on the living room sofa,” he grumbled.
“My family is listed as a poor household, and we do not have enough money to repair the dilapidated apartment.
“I hope that local authorities support my family and other disadvantaged households in carrying out repairs and stabilizing our lives."
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| Nguyen Chien, a resident of the tenement, is worried about the deterioration of his residence in Da Nang, central Vietnam. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
Tran Thi Anh Phuong, another resident in the building, has similar worries.
Phuong lamented that she had spent some VND100 million (US$4,000) repairing her degraded flat, but the ceiling is still leaking.
The municipal Department of Construction had previously issued a decision to allocate VND5 billion ($196,740) to the Da Nang Center for Housing Management and Exploitation to repair the rundown apartments.
The center is conducting relevant procedures to start work on an An Cu 5 tenement repair project.
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| The wall of an apartment of the An Cu 5 apartment complex in Son Tra District, Da Nang is peeling. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
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| The rundown apartment complex turns residents’ life upside down. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
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| The ceiling of an apartment in the complex is peeling. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
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| Many residents of the apartment complex in Da Nang hope that their residences will be repaired soon to stabilize their life. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
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| Many walls of the apartment building look shabby. Photo: Thanh Nguyen / Tuoi Tre |
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