VietNamNet Bridge – Clothes are air everywhere, electric wires interlace, walls are cracked and mossy… Old apartment blocks make HCM City untidy.

Clothes are air at Nguyen Thien Thuat apartment block in District 3, HCM City.

Another apartment block on Tran Phu road, District 5.

Apartment block 727 on Tran Hung Dao road, District 5.

The cement layer on the wall is peeled off because this building was built for several decades.

A hen-house hung in the air.

Interlacing electric wires.

Thanh Da apartment blocks in Binh Thanh district.

An apartment block on Binh Quoi road, Binh Thanh district.

According to the HCM City Department of Construction, HCM City has 1,002

apartment blocks. Up to 570 were built before 1975, totaling 50,460 apartments.

Around 170 of them are downgraded and 67 are damaged.

By the end of 2010, the city repaired and built 62 apartment blocks. However, the pace is very slow.

VNE