The six, which have 1,785 apartments, are Block D of Cô Giang in District 1, 148 Nguyen Dinh Chieu in District 3, Block G of Ngo Gia Tu in District 10, Block A of Ly Thuong Kiet in District 11, and 350 and 251 Hoang Van Thu in Tan Binh District.

Developers of the new apartments have been identified for all except Ngo Gia Tu.

The remaining eight to be knocked down, also spread over several districts, have a total of 1,543 units.

The department on Thursday assessed three other old apartment buildings and submitted the results to the city People’s Committee.

Of them, two - 440 Tran Hung Dao in District 5 and 128 Hai Ba Trung in District 1 – have been rated level D, the worst in terms of safety, because their structures have deteriorated.

The other, at 155-157 Bui Vien in District 1, is also in very poor shape and needs to be demolished as soon as possible.

The city has 474 old apartment buildings, of which 45 with 4,450 households are in very bad repair, according to the department.

Authorities plans to demolish and rebuild at least half of them by 2020. 

VNS