Gov’t to purchase houses for up to 300 IDP families
The Agency said meetings of a commission studying issues of the families were held on a monthly basis to accelerate the process of providing new housing, adding the IDPs could apply for participation in the project at any time. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Up to 300 internally displaced (IDP) families will receive houses in rural areas of the country from the Internally Displaced Persons, Ecomigrants and Livelihood Agency, the state body announced on Friday.
IDP families will be given six months to select their new homes across Georgia, with 5,000 IDP families to be accommodated in 2022-2024 under the Government project Rural House.
The Agency said meetings of a commission studying issues of the families were held on a monthly basis to accelerate the process of providing new housing, adding the IDPs could apply for participation in the project at any time.
Internal armed conflicts in Georgia in the 1990s caused forced relocation of the Georgian population from the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions, with about 251,000 people becoming IDPs in the country. The number increased by about 26,000 people following the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.
The Georgian Government announced last year it planned to provide 13,000 IDP families with new homes across the country as part of a four-year plan.
A total of 8,000 flats are to be built in various Georgian cities including Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi and Rustavi, with 709,800,000 GEL (about $220,436,333/€200,237,480) set to be allocated from the state budget for the IDP accommodation project in the years 2021-2024.
Since 2013, 23,000 IDP families have been provided with new housing, the Agency said.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
Over 100 families affected by natural disasters in various parts of Georgia will receive accommodation and land across rural parts of the country, Georgia’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.