Georgian Gov’t gifts apartments to 21 IDP families

Dozens of internally displaced people (IDPs) are enjoying a new lease on life after being gifted new apartments.

Today Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges, Sozar Subari, gifted newly renovated apartments to 21 internally displaced families in capital Tbilisi. 

For many years these and other IDPs lived in sub-standard, sometimes communal, privately- owned homes.

The Ministry said because the IDPs lived in privately-ownes homes, they had  to pay rent while they lived in poor conditions. 

Minister Subari with IDP children in their new apartment. Photo by  Georgia’s Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges.

The Ministry worked with property owners who took the responsibility to renovate their properties, after which the Government purchased the buildings for IDPs. 

The Ministry has already purchased 431 flats in capital Tbilisi, out of which 231 have already been gifted to IDPs. The remaining 200 apartments will be handed to the vulnerable population later this year. 

Last year the Government gifted new homes to 561 IDP families.