Gov’t gifts houses to 53 eco-migrant families
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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.
The families were able choose houses within $10,000.
Most of the houses came with agricultural land plots.
The Refugee Minister arrived in Samegrelo to meet with eco-migrants. Photo from the Refugee Ministry press office.
The government, with the help of its Ministry of Refugees, has gifted houses to more than 1,000 eco-migrant families since 2013.
The government plants to purchase about 445 houses for eco-migrants this year in the countries coastal Adjara region.
70 houses have already been purchased.
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.
Government of Georgia has legalized houses and agricultural lands to about 200 eco-migrant families in Tsalka municipality of the eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia gifted flats to 100 eco-migrant families today.
Hundreds of Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres have been gifted apartments in their name for symbolic price of one GEL.