REFUGEES’ APARTMENT PROVISION STATE PROGRAM TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN YEREVAN THIS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
March 27, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. It is already the 4th year a state
program under the title Apartment Provision of People Who Repressed
from Azerbaijan is implemented in Armenia. Apartment purchase
certificates are provided to refugees under the program. This year the
program will be implemented in Yerevan, for which 815m drams (more
than 2.6m USD) has been allocated from the state budget. As Noyan
Tapan correspondent was informed by Gagik Yeganian, the Head of the
Migration Agency of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration,
the program’s beneficiaries of this year are 23 families living in
the student hostel in Yerevan, Moldovakan, 70.
Besides, according to him, the agency proposed the RA Ministry of
Urban Development involving other families as well in this year’s
program if possible. G. Yeganian said that the number of families
needing an apartment in Yerevan is nearly 1100. In total, nearly 30m
USD is needed to provide them with apartments.
It was also mentioned that the program has been already implemented in
the country’s regions. 900 out of 1200 beneficiaries of the program
have purchased apartments so far. And the rest 300, according to
G. Yeganian, have failed to purchase apartments yet for different
reasons. One of the reasons was that the certificate’s value
did not correspond to the prices of real estate sold in the given
territory. G. Yeganian said that the latters continue to be considered
program’s beneficiaries. Their problem will be solved in the future.