189 IDP families register real estate for symbolic price
“Thousands of IDP families have already taken ownership of housing from the state since 2012,” the Georgian government administration reports. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.’
The government approved a decree on the privatisation of state-owned real estate in the form of a gratuitous transfer,” the Georgian government administration announced today.
The plots of land are located in the country’s eastern municipalities of Gori and Kareli, and the actual owners are IDPs living in a compact settlement.
The internal armed conflicts in Georgia of the 1990s caused the forced relocation of the Georgian population from the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions, after which about 251,000 people became IDPs in the country. The number increased by about 26,000 people following the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.
Thousands of IDP families have already taken ownership of housing from the state since 2012,” the Georgian government administration reports.
Overall 23,000 IDP families have been provided with new housing from 2013 to today.
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 and 709,800,000 GEL (about $226,173,405/€194,791,295) will be allocated from the state budget for the IDP settlement project in 2021-2024.