1.6bn Drams To Be Allocated By Apartment Purchase Certificate Progra

1.6BN DRAMS TO BE ALLOCATED BY APARTMENT PURCHASE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM THIS YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Feb 25, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 1bn 630m drams (nearly 5.2m USD)
has been allocated by the 2008 state budget by the Apartment Purchase
Certificate program for improving housing conditions of people,
who have remained homeless as a result of the earthquake, as well
as families repressed from Azerbaijan, and those who have suffered
from landslides in rural populated areas. As Vardan Vardanian, the RA
Minister of Urban Development, said after the RA government’s February
22 sitting, as much funds were also allocated by the last year’s
budget, by which 581 certificates were provided and 250 apartments
were bought.

According to the Minister, by the apartment purchase certificate
the people of the above mentioned group can purchase an apartment
at the market price of the given moment. The averaged market cost of
apartments is presented to the Ministry by the State Committee of Land
Survey, once every quarter. For instance, in Gyumri 1 sq.m. apartment
has been valued at present 75 thousand drams and in Yerevan’s Nor
Nork community 130 thousand drams.

V. Vardanian said that 2335 apartment purchase certificates have
been provided since 2005 up to present, by which 1325 families have
purchased apartments.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS