Construction of flats for eco-migrant families living in Batumi ‘slums’ to start in February
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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.
He noted that 16 million GEL ($5.5 mln/€5 mln) has been allocated in 2020 from the Adjara budget for this project.
At the first stage, 580 families will receive modern flats.
About 2,000 jobs were created in Adjara region at construction worksites in 2019 said Rijvadze, adding that the local government is planning to increase this number up to 6,000 this year.
In 2019, more than 45 projects have been carried out for which 1 billion GEL ($0.4 bln/€0.3 bln) was allocated for the project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Georgian Government has provided 34 internally displaced families (IDPs) with accommodations in Georgia’s eastern region of Shida Kartli.
The Agency for IDPs and Eco-migrants of Georgia has purchased 734 rural houses for IDP families in the Samegrelo region of Georgia 'over the past year', announces the agency.
More than 5,000 families of ex-servicemen, IDPs and socially vulnerable individuals will receive the legal deeds to the flats they already inhabit but that are legally owned by the Ministry of Defence.
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.
The budget of western Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara is set to reach ₾700 million ($259 mln) next year, with the combined budget approaching the one billion mark for the first time, Tornike Rijvadze, the Chairman of the regional Adjara Government, revealed on Wednesday.