113 eco-migrant families receive homes in Georgia
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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.
These people are known as eco-migrants who were granted ownership rights to apartments by a government decree.
The Government of Georgia today announced that the eco-migrant families received homes in the municipalities of Tsalka, Tetritskharo, Akhmeta, Lagodekhi, Khoni, Lentekhi and Gurjaani.
Since 2016 more than 500 eco-migrant families were given ownership rights to apartments.
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 58 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 Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia gifted flats to 100 eco-migrant families today.
Thirty three Georgian families forced from their homes by natural disasters will receive new homes worth up to 20,000 GEL as a gift from the state.
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.
As PM Kvirikashvili said, the government plans to double the financing for local governments during the next 10 years. In doing so the government hopes to address the problem inequality of life in different regions of the country.
The Georgian government handed keys to their brand-new flats to 251 internally displaced families on Friday, with Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia telling reporters the policy of providing benefits to IDPs would continue.