Government to provide 401 IDP families with accommodations in rural areas
Over 21,000 IDP families have been provided with accommodations within different programmes since 2013. Photo: Georgian Government.
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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.
Within the project ‘’House in the Village”, IDPs will be able to choose a house with the land in any region of Georgia. If the criteria are met, the agency will purchase the house for the IDP family.
IDP families are given three-month deadline for selecting a house. The amount of funding depends on the number of family members.
The state has already provided 4,000 IDP families under the “House in Village” project.
Over 21,000 IDP families have been provided with accommodations within different programmes since 2013.
“The Government of Georgia will provide 211 IDP families with accommodations for free,” Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has declared at a briefing today.
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.
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 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.
Over 300 IDP families who lived in damaged buildings have received flats in newly built residential buildings in the western town of Zugdidi in the Samegrelo region.