At 12 noon, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Chi (67 years old, from Ben Tre) returned to a shack in Vinh Loc B commune (Binh Chanh district, Ho Chi Minh City). Due to the complicated epidemic situation, her business of selling lottery tickets has been severely affected. Going all morning, she has not sold more than half of the lottery tickets received from last night. “Selling too slow, I’m worried this month I won’t be able to pay for the room. Fortunately, the landlord has announced that he will cut my rent by half,” said Ms. Chi, adding that she would tighten spending. To save money, every day, she eats only white rice and dried fish that was given to her by a neighbor. Living in a difficult situation, she was very happy when she heard that her rent was reduced. This joy also comes to more than 300 people who are renting at Residence No. 1 (Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh City). Mr. Pham Trung Hieu, the owner of the accommodation, said that during the recent Covid-19 epidemics, the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Worker Support Center and the accommodation have implemented many programs to support tenants. Currently, many motel owners have exempted or reduced rent for employees. During this epidemic, he also reduced the rent for more than 300 people staying here. “We give gifts to workers who are renting and reduce the room rate by 50%. The accommodation is supported by a sponsor of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Worker Support Center. We will organize people to come and receive free rice next Saturday,” he said. Meanwhile, in a row of more than 20 rooms for rent on Nguyen Cong Hoan Street (Ward 7, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City), Mr. Ho De is free of charge for some tenants here. This is the fourth time that Mr. De has exempted or reduced the rent. He said: “Three previous epidemics, I also exempted and reduced rent. Poor families rent here for many years, I reduce the money. For students, students with difficulties, I always free rent.” Ms. Only received a reduction in the rent of the room from the lessor. To save money, she only eats white rice with the dried fish given to her. Local people said that Mr. De’s exemption and reduction of rent is not uncommon. Because more than 40 years ago, he had taken care of, even for people with difficult circumstances, poor students to stay in free accommodation. Leave a house of tens of billions, treat tenants like family In particular, recently, he completed a will with the content of leaving 2 houses worth tens of billions of dong for the lonely elderly and poor students – free of charge. Ho Thi Nhu Quynh, a student at the University of Industry 4, who is renting here, said: “Every epidemic, Mr. De also visits and asks for the innkeepers”. “He put up a notice to give everyone a 50% discount on rent. However, when he knew which families were too difficult, he reduced them from 60-70% of the rent. Some people are completely exempted from rent by him,” Nhu Quynh said. Similar to Mr. De, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy (owner of a motel room in Tan Quy Ward, Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City) also reduced the rent and space for the poor from last May. This is the fourth time that Mr. Ho De has exempted or reduced the rent. However, until this June, the epidemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City was still complicated, so she continued to reduce the rent. She even actively reduced the rent of her already very low business premises. Mr. Nguyen Van Tai, the tenant of Ms. Thuy’s premises, said that he and his wife rented the business front in front of Ms. Thuy’s inn to sell soft drinks. Although located in a large street frontage, crowded with people, convenient for business, Ms. Thuy rented it to him at a very cheap price. “In this epidemic, Ho Chi Minh City was separated for a long time, so I sold very little. One day, we barely sold anything, it was very difficult. Fortunately, Ms. Thuy actively reduced the rent. This has helped our family a lot during this tight time,” said Mr. Tai. Thuy shared, most of the tenants here have been with her for many years. According to each person’s circumstances, Ms. Thuy will reduce the rent differently. She said: “In the epidemic, people who work are unemployed, business people are sluggish… Therefore, their income has also decreased a lot. How can I collect enough rent? I try to reduce the rent, rent the premises so that they can help some or that part. Right now, I just want to help workers overcome the pandemic so that they can stabilize their lives and send money back to their hometowns.” Like Mrs. Thuy, Mr. Hieu said, he always considers the people who are renting with him as “family members”. When his “family” was severely affected by the epidemic, he could not sit still. Therefore, even though he knew that he would lose a large amount of income when reducing the rent by 50% for more than 300 people, he still tried to do it.

Williamsburg is one of the trendiest neighborhoods in New York City, USA. This neighborhood stretches from Flushing Avenue all the way to the northern edge of McCarren Park. In 1855, Williamsburg was officially incorporated into Brooklyn. It became part of New York in 1898, when Brooklyn was officially one of the city’s five boroughs, according to Insider. Photo: New York Times. Williamsburg attracts young people and tourists with its impressively decorated cafes and restaurants and bustling atmosphere. In addition, this is also a place frequented by fashionistas thanks to luxury stores. Photo: Insider. Williamsburg is adorned with street art through colorful murals and renovated factories. In addition, this place also becomes a familiar destination for New Yorkers when night falls. Photo: The Curious Pixie. Erin McDowell, who has lived in Williamsburg for about two years, says what she loves most here is the busy attractions. Outdoor concert venues, seasonal food markets, and bars are just some of the things that make Williamsburg nightlife more vibrant. Photo: Trip Savvy. According to the Furman Center report, the average cost of rent in Williamsburg increased 78.7% from 1990-2014. This has pushed low-income households out of the area. Despite a 20% drop from this time last year due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg is still up to $ 2,600. Currently, the average annual income of people in Williamsburg is 100,000 USD. Photo: Getty. The outdoor food service is one of the popular patterns in Williamsburg. Walking along the streets here, visitors can find eateries packed with people almost every block. Photo: Insider. According to McDowell, the busiest place in Williamsburg is Domino Park. In May 2020, the management board painted “social distancing circles” on the lawn to ensure the safety of people when coming here to sunbathe and warm up. Each circle can accommodate a group of 4-5 people. All are required to stay in their respective areas. Photo: AFP. One of the best things about living in Williamsburg is seeing the beautiful views near Lower Manhattan and the East River. As you walk along the pier, you can see many people riding on jet skis enjoying the nice weather. Photo: Insider. During the epidemic season, most nightclubs are closed, bars are only allowed to operate until midnight. On the east side of the neighborhood, tourists can enjoy drag shows all day of the week at the LGBTQ+ community bar. Photo: Insider.

SoHo (short for South of Houston Street) is one of the richest neighborhoods in New York City, USA. SoHo is located in southern Manhattan, surrounded by NoHo, Little Italy, TriBeCa and South Village. According to Insider, around the 1960s, SoHo was mainly home to industrial parks, textile factories, and manufacturing factories. Then, when the factories and companies leave one by one. SoHo attracts artists who are looking for workspaces here. Most of the buildings in SoHo were used as a place of business and commerce for decades. Many cult brands, retailers are located in this area. If you go along some roads in SoHo, visitors will be overwhelmed by the luxury and splendor. SoHo’s history is reflected in iconic cobblestone streets. It dates from the 19th to 20th century and is interconnected through many zones. In 1990, rents in this area skyrocketed. Many visitors come here to enjoy a day of shopping, dine at Manhattan’s best restaurants or take a scenic walk. SoHo has plenty of space to display artworks. For example, The Drawing Center, a non-profit exhibition on Wooster Street, is a place for artists in SoHo. Martha Beck, curator of the Museum of Modern Art, founded The Drawing Center in 1977 as a place to interact and create creative spaces for local artists. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Association, calls SoHo “a historic gem with a unique architecture.” It captures the story of a city’s development from small town to the center of world culture and trade. With its existing advantages, SoHo is being proposed to be planned to create affordable real estate for the middle class. According to The Gothamist reported in October 2020, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, said the city government is considering re-zoning SoHo. The New York City Planning Department plans to add 3,200 units to the neighborhood. Of which 800 units will be priced lower than the market price. Bringing affordable housing to the affluent is a typical New York strategy for repartitioning people with lower incomes, according to Insider. Will Thomas, board member for Open New York, the SoHo affordable housing group, sees it as a “historic opportunity”. “This will really change the unwritten rules surrounding the development in this city. In particular, during the pandemic, affordable housing is more essential than ever,” Thomas told. The Gothamist.

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On April 13, Meituan posted a response to the “campus loan” scam on its official Weibo.

Source: Weibo

Recently, some users reported to Meituan customer service that some related personnel claimed to be Meituan customer service, and indicated to users that they needed to “cancel campus loan account” and “change identity information”, and then took the opportunity to guide users to borrow money, transfer money, and so on. It is reported that such scammers will use international telephone area codes to pretend to be customer service calls. In addition, when they add the user WeChat, they will also publish the authorization certificate, work permit and other related documents that have been prepared in advance to increase the credibility.

On April 9, Meituan Security issued a warning on WeChat about fraud in the name of Meituan Financial Products. Four days later, the official WeChat account of Meituan reposted it and stated that Meituan Finance had never launched a “campus loan” product.

It is understood that there are four main types of credit products under Meituan Finance, the virtual credit payment product Meituan Monthly Payment, the consumer loan product Meituan Loan, the business loan product Meituan Business Loan, and the standard credit card product Meituan Co-branded Card.

It is worth noting that the black cat complaint platform showed that the C-end loan product Meituan’s living expenses was violently collected, intimidated, and the address book exploded by users’ complaints. The complaint revealed that Meituan’s third-party reminders continued to disturb the users’ relatives, colleagues, neighborhood committees and other irrelevant personnel when the user’s debt was overdue. Since April, users have more than 30 complaints about the collection behavior of Meituan.

Source: Black Cat Complaint Platform

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The alley is only half a meter wide, deep, smoking, people have to turn on the electricity 24/24 to see the path, the entrance can only be one by one.

Alleyways are only available in Hanoi’s Old Quarter

Along the streets such as: Hang Buom, Hang Chieu, Hang Duong, Lane Brick, Lo Su … are super-small alleyways, right behind the shops with splendid light; is known as a “specialty” of Hanoi Old Quarter.

Streets located in the old town area are called “diamond streets” of Hanoi, with a value of up to billions of VND / m2, equivalent to land prices in the most expensive cities in the world. like New York, Paris or Tokyo.

In the area of ​​Hang Ngang – Hang Dao, Dinh Tien Hoang, the price of road surface is said to be from 800 million to more than 1 billion VND / m2.

Most of the households living in these alleys are families with 3 generations, sharing a small house, only 10m2.

An alley on Hang Buom Street, deep and dark like a tunnel.

Mr. Le Cong Vinh (70 years old, Hang Buom street) said: “Although I am used to living here, sometimes I find it inconvenient. Every time you want to renovate the house, you have to pay more labor costs to carry the materials bit by bit from outside the entrance to the house ”.

According to Mr. Vinh, the biggest inconvenience here is the lack of common living space for everyone. Every time anyone’s house has a table, they have to borrow the space of the next house to have enough room for guests. When shopping for household appliances, everyone has to consider, calculate and only dare to buy items with the size that can pass through the lane.

Even during the day, even with the lights on, the alley is still dark.

Mr. Le Ngoc Anh (45 years old, Hang Buom street) expressed concern: “I only care for children who do not have a place to play and play. Every afternoon, they come home from school to see them sitting in the house watching TV or playing on the phone.

Alley space is narrow, many families with young children often have to go to the park or walk around the street to save trouble.

The lane’s meager space is used as a place for furniture, goods, and bicycles.

The electrical wiring and meters above are installed running along the small alley, potentially many risks, not ensuring electrical safety and fire prevention.

“The alley, the house is cramped, but it can’t be helped to move.”

Located deep in the alley only about 50cm wide, with dim electric lights on Hang Buom street, the house of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long’s family has two floors, each floor is less than 10m2 but has 6 people, 3 generations. live together.

Mr. Long shared: “Although living conditions are quite tight, many households here do not want to move anywhere. Moreover, if we move, we do not know what kind of profession to make a living ”.

The small room, narrow alley, and Mr. Long’s furniture are only “moderate” in size.

An alley corner is used as a cooking place.

Many households have to share living space to save space.

The alley is very narrow, only one person can pass, so people often wait for each other to take each car out one by one …

Le Thi Gai (75 years old, Lo Su street, Hoan Kiem district) shared that her family has lived here since the 1960s, most of people here are manual labor, small businesses. in the old town. Although there are many inconveniences, the households living in these alleys are very united.

“Previously, 4 households in the alley used the same toilet, now life is better, each house built its own toilet, but we still told you to clean the way together. go, everyone’s living space ”.

A small, deep alley is nestled among flashy street shops.

Since 1998, the People’s Committee of Hanoi has started an old town migration project with the aim of reducing population density in the AQ from 823 people / ha in 2010 to 500 people / ha. Accordingly, the area of ​​Hoan Kiem old town has to move over 6,500 households, with about 27,000 people.

In the middle of 2019, the project of stretching the old town continues to restart after the years that seem to have “fallen asleep”. However, after more than 20 years of implementing this population relaxation project, the old quarters with a large population density, narrow houses crowded in deep streets continue to recur. Damage, peeling walls, steel core inside is common.

The alleys are not noisy, no hustle and bustle, still quietly nestled on the bustling streets of more than 20 years. The people living in it still keep harmony with each other, yield to the little common space, and preserve the civilized lifestyle of Ha Thanh land.