Internally displaced families to receive new housing in Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi
The PM called the programme for creating “decent conditions” for IDPs until their return to the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions Government's “obligation and duty”.Photo: Government's Administration.
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The Georgian Government has approved provision of new flats to internally displaced families in capital Tbilisi and western cities of Zugdidi and Kutaisi, the Government Administration said on Monday.
In the initiative, 2,400 IDP families will be provided with housing in Tbilisi, with 1,700 families to be offered flats in Zugdidi and 720 in Kutaisi through financing options, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said at today's Government’s meeting.
Garibashvili also noted 13,000 internally displaced families who are beneficiaries of the initiative would receive new housing until 2025.
The PM called the programme for creating “decent conditions” for IDPs until their return to the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions Government's “obligation and duty”.
Garibashvili also said of the total number, 7,000 families would receive flats in newly constructed apartment blocks, with the remaining 6,000 accommodated in rural areas under the Country House programme.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said the Government would approve the draft decree transferring residential flats to ownership of 850 internally displaced families.
The Georgian Government will legalise housing, agricultural land and other plots to 500 internally displaced families in Tbilisi and other regions of the country in the coming months, the Government Administration said following the meeting of the Cabinet on Monday.
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.
An “unprecedented” large-scale programme for providing accommodation to internally displaced families in Georgia will provide new housing for 13,000 families in the country over two years, with Georgia’s Prime Minister highlighting the matter as a “priority direction” for the Government.
The Georgian government on Monday announced the handover of state-owned real estate to 123 internally displaced families in Tbilisi and 18 other municipalities of the country, as well as the launch of a new, five-year, ₾225 million ($82 mln) water supply project in the central Khashuri municipality.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday laid a capsule in the foundation of one of the 11 apartment blocks being built to house internally displaced families in Tbilisi.
Construction of three residential blocks designed to house 720 internally displaced families has kicked off in the western Georgian city of Kutaisi, with Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili placing a symbolic capsule in the foundation of the new ₾77 million ($29.51mln) construction on Tuesday.
The Government of Georgia on Monday discussed a draft decree for providing new accommodation to about 1,000 socially vulnerable families with three and more children.