Gov’t gifts houses to 100 eco-migrant families
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The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia gifted flats to 100 eco-migrant families today.
The houses are located in Tsalka, Lagodekhi, Tetritskaro, Akhmeta, Signagi, Gori, Khoni and Ninotsminda municipalities, in the country’s east and west.
The families were also given plots of land under their ownership.
The Government has handed houses to 443 eco-migrant families since 2016.
The General Assembly of the United Nations has recognised the right of return of all internally displaced persons and refugees in Georgia and their descendants to their homes throughout that country, including Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be granted one-time financial assistance from the Government this winter to help them pay their gas and power bills.
Hundreds of Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres have been gifted apartments in their name for symbolic price of one GEL.
The Georgian Government has gifted new homes to 389 internally displaced families from Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions.
Government of Georgia has legalized houses and agricultural lands to about 200 eco-migrant families in Tsalka municipality of the eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
About 113 families who moved away from their home areas due to landslide risk, earthquakes or other natural disasters are the happy owners of new apartments in different regions of Georgia.
The government of Georgia has allocated funds to buy houses to 53 eco-migrant families in the country’s Samegrelo region, in the west of Georgia.