Gov’t announces tender for IDP housing project
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The Georgian Government has announced a tender for a development company to provide apartments for Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs).
This decision was reached today at an Economic Council meeting, led by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
The tender will be launched in the near future and will be open to development companies who operate in Tbilisi.
Garibashvili said the long-term project will be implemented in several stages over the next few years.
In the first stage, apartments will be purchased for refugees in apartment blocks that are already under construction. The second stage will see the development of former construction projects that stopped years ago for various reasons.
At today’s meeting, Economic Council members listened to Minister ofInternally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia Sozar Subari speak about this and other projects, including the ‘village house’ project, which involved the Government purchasing houses in different villages for IDPs.
Subari noted the Ministry had received 350 applications for the village housing project, most of which would be satisfied by the end of this year.
"This is a very important project. The refugees are themselves choosing their homes in rural areas accompanied with the infrastructure, agricultural land and cattle in most cases. So the IDPs not only purchase a house in the village but they get an opportunity to exist and support their family,” Subari noted.
Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres will be gifted apartments in their name for one GEL, the Ministry of Refugees says.
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.
The Prime Minister of Georgia has delivered a poignant speech at a special session within the 69th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where he spoke about the issues facing internally displaced persons.
More than 100 Internally Displaced families will meet New Year in new apartments in Georgia.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
Assisting Georgia’s Internally Displaced People (IDPs) into quality accommodation, supporting agricultural sector development and implementing modern punishment methods in the justice sector are some of the priority areas of the Government of Georgia.
IDP families were given the opportunity to find an appropriate vacant house in any rural area nationwide, and once a suitable home was found, the Government took responsibility for purchasing the property under the ‘House in a Village’ state program.
At today’s Governmental meeting Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili said 347 internally displaced families would be gifted private ownership of accommodation in various parts of Georgia before the end of the year.