Gov’t launches process to replace slums near Batumi, housing 1,000 children
Head of Adjara government Tornike Rizhvadze says that the construction process will start soon. Photo: RFE/RL.
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A construction tender has been announced to replace slums near Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi’s so-called ‘Dream Town’ or ‘Cardboard Town’ of eco-migrant families, currently housing about 1,000 children living in poor conditions.
Head of Adjara government Tornike Rizhvadze says that 16 million GEL [about 6 million USD] will be allocated from the 2020 state budget for the construction and at the first stage 580 families will receive modern flats.
The settlement was made in the autumn of 2012. Photo: RFE/RL.
It has been one of the most severe social problems in Adjara for years which will be finally settled,” Rizhvadze has stated earlier today.
The current settlement was made on the former bases of 25th and 53rd Russian military battalion near Batumi, where eco-migrant families, who moved from the highlands of Adjara, settled in the autumn of 2012 - just after the Georgian Dream coalition’s victory in Georgia’s parliamentary elections.
They settled on the outskirts of the city in their own huts made of cardboard, where later people built concrete houses instead.
Residential buildings will be built for hundreds of families living near to Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi, announces Chairman of the Government of Georgia’s Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Tornike Rijvadze.
Georgian refugees from Abkhazia are holding a rally in front of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia demanding they be given apartments.
52 internally displaced families from Georgia’s Russian occupied territories have received new flats in the country’s western city of Kutaisi, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Health and Labour.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia has announced a tender to purchase 400 apartments for internally displaced persons.
The Agency for IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), eco-migrants and livelihood provision will provide 401 IDP families with accommodations in rural areas, reports the Ministry of Health, Social Care and Internally Displaced Persons.
The construction of flats for eco-migrant families living in slum-like conditions in Batumi’s so-called ‘Dream Town’ will start in February, said Head of the Adjara region government Tornike Rijvadze earlier today.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who own no more than five hectares of agricultural land may be exempt from paying property tax, announced Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia at a government meeting earlier today.
The construction of flats for eco-migrant families living in slum-like conditions in Batumi’s so-called ‘Dream Town’ began earlier today.
Head of the Adjara government Tornike Rizhvadze is optimistic about the investment environment in the Black Sea region despite the coronavirus pandemic. Rizhvadze said Adjara, which is now a coronavirus-free zone, has been among the exemplary regions in fight against COVID-19.
A total of 40 families have received apartments in Georgia's seaside town of Batumi earlier today in the framework of the affordable housing project financed by Batumi City Hall. "The first stage of the affordable housing project (so-called cheap house) implemented by Batumi City Hall has been completed,” the government of Adjara states.