PM Garibashvili: 300 IDP families will register real estate for symbolic price
The number of IDPs increased by about 26,000 people following the Russian-Georgia war in 2008. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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About 300 internally displaced (IDP) families living in state-owned buildings will register the apartments they inhabit at a symbolic price, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced today.
We (the Georgian government) will hand over and legalise real estate for about 300 IDP families at a symbolic price of one GEL,” said Garibashvili.
The internal armed conflicts in Georgia of the 1990’s caused the forced relocation of the Georgian population from Russian-occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Tskhinvali region) after which about 251,000 people became IDPs in the country. The number of IDPs increased by about 26,000 people following the Russian-Georgia war in 2008.
A total of 266 IDP families registered houses on August 18 earlier this year.
More than 1,900 IDP families legalised their real estate last year.
The Georgian government announced in early August that it plans to provide 13,000 IDP families with new homes across the country as part of the four-year plan.
A total of 8,000 apartments will be built in various Georgian cities such as Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi and Rustavi.
23,000 IDP families have been provided with new housing from 2013 till today.
Fifty-five families living in Vake and Saburtalo districts of the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi have received ownership documents of their flats, which they could not register for years, announces Tbilisi City Hall.
The Georgian government will hand over new flats to 5,000 internally displaced families within two years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.
Georgian government plans to provide 13,000 internally displaced families with new homes across the country within the next four years, Director of the IDP Agency Besarion Simonishvili announced earlier today at the health ministry’s presentation of the 4-year strategic plan for the resettlement of IDPs. A total of 8,000 apartments will be built in various Georgian cities such as Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi and Rustavi and 709,800,000 GEL (about $229,508,196/€193,807,339) will be allocated from the state budget for the IDP settlement project in 2021-2024.
The Georgian Government has gifted new homes to 60 Internally Displaced veterans and their families in Georgia’s western cities of Zugdidi and Kutaisi.
The Georgian government has given 420 refugee families apartments in a new residential complex built in Tskaltubo, in western Georgia earlier today. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that the government had spent 37 million GEL to build 'a new, modern-standard residential complex for the IDPs' in Tskaltubo.
A total of 294 homes, previously used by internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been given to 258 families today, announces the government of Georgia. The families live in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi and the regions of Shida Kartli, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Imereti and Samegrelo.
A total of 189 internally displaced (IDP) families living in state-owned buildings have registered the plots of land they inhabit at a symbolic price, the Georgian government reports. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on August 30 the Georgian government’s initiative to ‘hand over and legalise real estate for about 300 IDP families at a symbolic price of one GEL.’
Minister of Health Zurab Azarashvili has expressed his condolences following yesterday’s incident at the former Kartli sanatorium when IDP Zurab Chichoshvili jumped out of his apartment in the building and died yesterday.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has criticised health minister Zurab Azarashvili’s comments on the case of the death of Zurab Chichoshvili, an internally displaced person who jumped out of his apartment in the former Kartli sanatorium building and died on January 15, saying it was "wrong to declare a qualification during the investigation."
State grants for expanding businesses will be granted to 29 internally displaced persons and ecomigrants engaged in entrepreneurship in Georgia, the Agency for Internally Displaced Persons, Ecomigrants and Livelihood announced on Monday.
The Georgian Government will hand state-owned real estate to 16 individuals and 19 families for the symbolic price of ₾1 ($0.35), the Government Administration said on Monday following a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.