420 refugee families receive new apartments in Tskaltubo, western Georgia
Hundreds of refugee families were forced to live in dire conditions in Tskaltubo's 15 sanatoria after being displaced from their homes from Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia following the 1992-93 war. Photo: Ryan McCarrel.
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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.
We all remember the dire conditions in which they were forced to live... On one hand, I congratulate you on the occasion of receiving your new apartments. On the other hand, our main goal and dream, our major concern, is to return to our homes in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali", said Garibashvili.
PM Garibashvili giving the key of new apartment to a little girl. Photo: PM's press office.
Hundreds of refugee families were forced to live in dire conditions in Tskaltubo's 15 sanatoria after being displaced from their homes from Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia following the 1992-93 war, as a result of which Abkhazia declared independence and nearly all ethnic Georgians were forced to flee.
After providing them with housing all sanatoria where IDPs have lived for years will be closed.
In total 560 refugee families have received apartments in Tskaltubo.
Garibashvili said that since October 1, 2012, the government has provided and legalised living spaces and apartments for 27,000 refugee families.
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.
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.
The Georgian Government has gifted new homes to 60 Internally Displaced veterans and their families in Georgia’s western cities of Zugdidi and Kutaisi.
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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.’