In just the first days of the new era, across the length of this S-shaped country, “social housing” projects reserved exclusively for the People’s Public Security force have been springing up like mushrooms after the rain. Ninh Bình has just launched, with great fanfare, a project worth more than 4.8 trillion đồng, providing nearly 2,700 social housing units and 110 commercial units for officers and soldiers of the provincial police force and their families.
And that is not all. Three projects in Hưng Yên, Quảng Ninh, and Tuyên Quang, with a combined scale of 3,500 units and a total value of 7.5 trillion đồng, are now being offered to investors. Khánh Hòa has also broken ground on a 1,570-unit project on nearly 60,000 square meters in southern Nha Trang. Altogether, tens of trillions of đồng, from the state budget and socialized investment alike, are pouring rapidly into creating “homes” for one especially privileged force.
People often say, “When one person becomes an official, the whole family benefits.” Yet under Tô’s new reign, only just begun, the entire police sector has already been provided with proper housing, settling down securely from north to south. Today it is social housing; tomorrow it will surely be dedicated amenities, schools, and hospitals. Glory for the family, honor and benefits spreading throughout the entire “police family” — that requires no prophecy to imagine.
Meanwhile, millions of working people are still struggling with cramped housing, soaring apartment prices, crushing bank debt, and the ever-distant dream of settling down. “Social housing” for ordinary citizens moves at a snail’s pace, plagued by delays and cumbersome procedures. But housing for the police moves at lightning speed, with enormous capital, large scale, and high-profile groundbreaking ceremonies. So is this “social” housing really social only for a privileged group?
This is not a personal matter, but a brutally realistic picture: the more power is concentrated, the more benefits are preferentially allocated to those who hold and protect that power. The people pay taxes to build the country, yet it seems the tastiest slice of the pie is cut first for those with a “special mission.”
A whole series of multi-trillion-đồng projects has appeared just weeks after the “Tô era” officially began, prompting biting sarcasm: the police do not merely “protect the people,” they are also protected by the people through high-rise, well-equipped apartments. And the people themselves continue to wait, continue to contribute with their sweat and tears.
The harsh truth is this: when the system showers one force with this level of privilege, the gap between “people of the system” and ordinary citizens only widens. Hưng Yên rises, the police rise — while the dream of a secure home for ordinary people still drags along on the ground.
Let us look at this clearly and soberly. This is not just a housing issue; it is a matter of how national resources are allocated. When tens of trillions are poured into one group, what will become of other sectors — education, healthcare, and support for the poor?
