Georgian PM lays foundation for residential blocks for IDPs in Kutaisi as 480 families receive flats
Construction of three residential blocks designed to house 720 IDP families has kicked off in Kutaisi, with PM Garibashvili placing a symbolic capsule in the foundation. Photo: PM's press office
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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.
Garibashvli launched the construction of the 12-storey buildings and noted three 16-storey blocks had been already completed as part of his Government’s push to provide IDPs with housing across the country.
Photo: PM's press office
He said 320 flats would be completed as part of the initiative “very soon”, as the launch of the new development was coincided with 480 IDP families receiving new apartments in the city.
The construction of the three blocks is due to be completed by late 2025, the Government Administration announced.
Garibashvili also said the budget allocated for IDPs totalled ₾233 million ($89.28mln) in 2023, a number he said was 10 times that of 2012, the year the current Government came to power.
This money is used for the construction of houses, flats [...] In total, over the last 10 years, we have given flats to 31,000 families”, he said, adding “large-scale works are already launched in Tbilisi, Rustavi and Kutaisi” for ensuring further accommodation.
Photo: PM's press office
The Government head said 13,000 more families would receive apartments “over the next two to three years”, of which 7,000 would get housing in residential projects and 6,000 would be accommodated in countryside houses as part of the rural housing programme of the Government.
“With our right policy - a result-oriented policy - we will achieve the integration of our country. This is our common goal, a common big dream, and it should be a national goal”, he said at the occasion, adding the Russian occupation of regions IDPs have fled from over the decades would end up being “temporary”.
The Government of Georgia on Monday announced it would transfer 342 residential premises currently occupied by 337 internally displaced families across the country to their formal ownership.
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.
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.
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.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, with the Head of the Regional Liaison Department of the Government Administration, Leri Barnabishvili, visited the rehabilitated center of the country’s western town of Vani.
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Georgia's Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).