More than hundred Internally Displaced families were today gifted new homes in capital Tbilisi.
Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges Sozar Subari and Minister of Economy Dimitry Kumsishvili visited the apartments with their new owners this afternoon.
The apartments, in a newly built block of flat in Nadzaladevi area, were gifted to 132 internally displaced families.
The Government also took responsibility to support the families to register their properties.
The block of flat in located in Dadiani Street. Photo by the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges.
Last year the Government gifted accommodations for 561 IDP families.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges of Georgia announced it had started the third phase of covering mortgage loans for internally displaced families.
In the first stage the Ministry supported 23 families with their bank obligations, while in the second stage this support increased to 49 families.
The Ministry stressed the internally displaced families could apply for Government support for their mortgage loans from March 1 to 31.
The Government had a budget of 1 million GEL ($406,500 USD/€373,134*) and each family was eligible to receive up to 20,000 GEL, but only if the property with the mortgage loan was the only registered property for the family.
•Currencies are as of today’s National Bank of Georgia exchange rate.