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    HOUSING CONSTRUCTION WILL BE COORDINATED

    KarabakhOpen
    08-04-2008 20:44:15

    The state commission for coordination of housing construction held
    its first meeting. The commission was set up by a recent decree of
    the president and is aimed to coordinate government-financed housing
    construction and reconstruction.

    The chair of the commission, Prime Minister Ara Harutiunyan noted that
    the social housing programs implemented over the past ten years has
    never been coordinated. There are a number of cases of violation of
    building regulations, provision of apartments to people who are not
    eligible for the social housing program, construction of housing in
    "inexpedient" areas, and a number of other breaches. As a result,
    the problem of housing of hundreds of people was solved, but part of
    the government funds was wasted.

    "The problem of housing will be tackled in two ways: mortgage and
    subsidy of construction of housing for socially insecure categories
    of people," Ara Harutiunyan said.

    A separate organization called the Center for Coordination of Housing
    Programs is going to be set up which will deal with organizational
    activities. The center will create a database of apartments provided
    earlier and study the lists of people in line for apartments, as well
    as the demand.

    The lists will be made on the basis of consultations with heads of
    regional administrations rather than documents of applicants.

    "We will rely on the current lists but the commission will have the
    right to decide who should receive an apartment primarily. Primarily,
    it is necessary to provide the families of killed azatamartiks with
    apartments. We will probably finish this in 2 or 3 years," the prime
    minister said.

    This year the government will allocate 3.5 billion drams for
    different social housing programs. 658 million will be spent on the
    construction of houses for large families. In addition, the issue
    of providing apartments to families with five and more children is
    under consideration (so far the government built houses for families
    having 6 and more children). 950 million drams is foreseen for the
    housing for migrants.

    According to the minister of urban planning Alexander Mamunts, of
    3.5 billion drams about 250 million has been spent this year. The
    minister urged the members of the commission to hurry up with the
    government order because the volume of activities requires considerable
    construction resources.

    During the meeting it was mentioned that it will be impossible to
    ensure social justice in solving this problem unless all the programs
    are coordinated from one center.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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