This study addresses critical gaps in the existing literature by investigating housing affordability in developing countries and integrating quality considerations into standard affordability measures. Using survey data from a random sample of 670 households in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, we conducted a distributional analysis to examine disparity in housing affordability and regression analysis to investigate factors influencing housing affordability. Our results reveal significant disparities in housing expenditure within HCMC households.

The interplay of climate change, upstream hydropower development, and local water engineering interventions for agricultural production contributes substantially to the transformation of waterscapes and water scarcity in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. This paper aims to examine how these dynamics are linked to the paradigm shift in water management in An Giang and Ben Tre, the two ecologically distinct provinces that face serious water scarcity in the delta.

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