WITH THE STATE BUDGET MEANS 720 FAMILIES TO BE ENSURED WITH APARTMENTS IN THE DISASTER ZONE
ARMENPRESS
Feb 13, 2009
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, ARMENPRESS: From 6,930 homeless families
registered in the disaster zone 720 will be ensured with apartments
this year with the state budget means. For this aim nearly 3.5 billion
drams have been released from the state budget.
Deputy Armenian Urban Minister Karlen Gevorkian told Armenpress that
2013 is the deadline for the solution of apartment issues of homeless
families of the disaster zone. In parallel to the state budget means,
in the disaster zone apartment building will be conducted with the
credit means of "Glendale hills" organization, which the state is
obliged to return in 15 years. The organization has worked out a
program according to which during 800 days 3,000 apartments will be
constructed in Gyumri and 350 – in Spitak 2,500 private houses in
Shirak and Lori provinces.
The deputy minister informed that this year in the disaster zone in
parallel to providing a certificate of apartment purchasing extended
construction works will also be conducted. With the state budget
means the housing issues of Tsakhkahovit, Stepanavan, Maralik and
Dilijan families which became homeless as a result of the disaster
are intended to be finally solved.
In Gyumri, besides the certificate of apartment purchase, an extended
construction program will be implemented, within the frameworks of
which by 2013 apartments are intended to be constructed for 3,000
families.
The works are already in process from October 2008. In the nearest
future apartment building works will also kick off in Lori province.
K. Gevorkian said that this year before ensuring the mentioned 720
families with apartments, it must be found out whether these families
have apartments in other communities or not. For implementation of
these works a new department will be established within the Ministry
where the cases of all homeless families will be centralized. Together
with the Central bank a joint computer program has been worked out
which will allow us to coordinate the works.
According to the deputy minister the circumstance that many families
have left for other countries to work and it is not possible to conduct
a full registration and provide financial means impedes the solution
of housing issues.
>From 1988-2008 nearly 58,000 families in the disaster zone have been
ensured with apartments.