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.