Every rainy season, Da Nang's mountain communes produce the same headlines: a slope gives way, a road is cut, a family is moved "to a safe place." The city now has a plan to stop moving people one storm at a time.

At a special session on October 6, the Da Nang People's Council approved a scheme to resettle 7,174 households living in landslide, flash-flood and flood zones, Thanh Nien reported. It covers 160 resettlement areas and points and runs in two stages, 2026–2030 and 2031–2036.

The numbers

  • Already in motion: 31 sites, for 1,279 households, are already funded or approved.
  • New sites: 129, for 5,895 households, with proposed investment of more than 3,417 billion dong.
  • 2026–2030: 66 sites for about 3,476 households, costing roughly 2,256 billion dong. Of that, 276 billion is already allocated, 612 billion is proposed from the city budget, and 1,368 billion is being requested from the central government.
  • 2031–2036: the remaining 63 sites for about 2,419 households, nearly 1,162 billion dong.

The city says the riskiest areas and projects with money already lined up go first. Each new site must be checked for geology, landslide and flood risk, water, land and distance to farmland, and residents must be consulted before they move. The People's Committee also says resettlement has to come with infrastructure, jobs and livelihoods, not just a house on a different hill.

The track record

Here's the context that matters. In late August, VOV reported on Resolution 63/2026, the council's support package for this work. It sets aside about 6,282 households for 2026–2030 and more than 1,819 billion dong. Families get 30 million dong to move, plus 60 million to 100 million dong for building materials depending on the area, and up to 100 million to rebuild in place where no resettlement land exists.

The same report looked back at 2021–2025. The city moved 3,370 households, just 43% of its plan, leaving 4,451 still waiting. Households in imminent danger were handled (130% of target), but the "particularly disadvantaged" group reached only about 6%.

City Party Secretary Le Ngoc Quang said at the time that the planning of some current residential areas is "very dangerous" and that relocation needs firm timelines.

The two figures, 6,282 and 7,174, describe different time frames and documents, not a contradiction. The real test is simpler: whether the next five years look different from the last five. When the next storm hits Tra My or Nam Giang, count how many of these 160 sites have roofs on them.

Sources

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