Housing programme for forcibly displaced people to be presented next  month - vice-premier 

ArmInfo.The program for providing housing for internally displaced persons from Artsakh will be 

presented to the government for discussion in April, Deputy Prime Minister and coordinator of the Humanitarian Center Tigran Khachatryan said on March 28 at a Cabinet meeting.

According to him, in order for the implementation of the program to 

be as problem-free and smooth as possible, numerous discussions were 

held both in the Cabinet of Ministers and with non-governmental 

organizations. Discussions were also organized with representatives 

of forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh. <There is not 

much left, the main questions are clear, the difficulties are also 

clear.  This is a very large-scale project, we are talking about 

providing apartments for 25-30 thousand families," Khachatryan said, 

once again emphasizing that not all families will be able to be 

offered an apartment or a house at the first stage, so they will have 

to establish a certain sequence of stages.

Khachatryan announced the possibility of implementing a housing 

program for forcibly displaced citizens from Artsakh who received RA 

citizenship at the end of February this year. According to him, the 

RA authorities will provide them with assistance in the amount of a 

fixed amount per each family member.  Financial resources will be 

available for the purchase or construction of an apartment or house. 

After 10 years of living in this house or apartment, ownership will 

pass to this family. As the deputy chairman pointed out, 

theoretically, more than 25 thousand families could become 

beneficiaries of the program, and the average amount of financial 

assistance could reach 12-18 million drams.

Apparently the program will be implemented within 5 years. <According 

to our rough estimates, 110-120 thousand people can take part in the 

program, at an average rate of 3 million drams per person. Then the 

total amount of assistance will be 400 billion drams," he said. At 

the same time, assistance provided to minor family members will be 

free of charge, and payments by adult family members will not begin 

immediately. They will be given time to adapt and find employment. 

The issue of payments from pensioners is still under discussion, he 

noted. <If after 10 years in a family, conditionally, there are two 

adults and three minors, out of 15 million drams, 9 million drams 

will not be returned, and after paying 6 million drams, the family 

will be able to dispose of this housing as its own property after 10 

years> , - he said. At the same time, if by the end of the 10-year 

period the family does not have the funds to repay the amount, it 

will not be evicted from this apartment, but will not have ownership 

rights, and accordingly, the right to dispose of this property.

The beneficiaries of the program will be not only internally 

displaced persons who arrived in Armenia after September 23 last 

year, but also those who moved to Armenia before or after the 44-day 

war of 2020, including from Hadrut, Martuni and Shushi.