40 IDP families from dilapidated Kartli sanatorium receive new flats in Tbilisi
Families who used the former sanatorium Kartli building for accommodation addressed relevant state authorities with unresolved requests for new housing over the years, before Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said in January they would “unconditionally” receive new housing by the end of 2022. Photo: moh.gov.ge.
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A total of 40 families of internally displaced persons who lived in the dilapidated building of the former Kartli sanatorium in Tbilisi have received flats in a newly built apartment block in the capital, the Ministry of IDPs said on Thursday.
Deputy Minister Irakli Ghudushauri said 85 families from the sanatorium had already received new flats, with the remaining 55 set to be provided with housing by the end of 2022.
Those residing in the sanatorium building have been living under safety risks for decades, as the building’s integrity was assessed as unstable in a 1998 expert study. A more recent study in 2015 said the condition of its base could “lead to its disintegration”.
Photo: The Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia/Facebook
Families who used the building for accommodation addressed relevant state authorities with unresolved requests for new housing over the years, before Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said in January they would “unconditionally” receive new housing by the end of 2022.
The Georgian Government announced in August 2021 it planned to provide 13,000 IDP families with new homes across the country as part of a four-year-plan.
Over 23,000 IDP families have been provided with new housing in the country since 2013.
Families of internally displaced persons who have been residing in the dilapidated Kartli sanatorium building will "unconditionally" recessive new housing by the end of 2022 to solve the long-running issue, prime minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
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."
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 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.
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.