65 internally displaced families to receive apartments from gov’t

23,000 IDP families have been given new houses since 2013. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge

Agenda.ge, 25 Oct 2021 - 14:05, Tbilisi,Georgia

Newly built apartments will be granted to 65 internally displaced (IDP) families.

At a government session held on October 25, PM Irakli Garibashvili announced that the families will receive accommodation in either Tbilisi, Kutaisi, or Zugdidi.

The families are from Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, who were forced to relocate following the conflicts.

Overall, 23,000 such families have been given new houses since 2013.

The Georgian government announced in August 2021 that it plans to provide 13,000 more families with new homes across the country as part of a four-year plan. 

In total, 8,000 apartments will be built in the cities of Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi and Rustavi, while 709,800,000 GEL (about $226,173,405/€194,791,295) will be allocated from the state budget for the internally displaced persons project in 2021-2024.