IDPs granted with Tbilisi apartments
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Forty eight internally displaced families have been granted apartments in Tbilisi by the Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation.
An old factory on Jikia Street has been renovated into an apartment block for internally displaced persons.
The Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation trawled through more than 1500 applications from internally displaced people from Abkhazia and Samachablo before it decided on approving housing for 48 people.
In addition, a further 90 internally displaced families will be granted with the apartments in the near future, Minister Davit Darakhvelidze said.
The quality of life of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Georgia has improved following law changes and Government-funded housing improvements for people displaced by conflict and violence. The recent changes and the current state of IDPs in Georgia were outlined in a report released today by the UN Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
For the first time in years, a group of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be able to look at their apartment and call it their own.
Dozens of refugee families living in critical conditions in an abandoned sanatorium in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region and other vulnerable refugee families will soon start a new life in new apartment buildings, gifted by the state
Hundreds of people displaced from Georgia’s breakaway regions, forced to flee their homes and live in sub-standard collective centres, have received new housing through a Government initiative to rehome vulnerable citizens.