The state program for providing housing to Karabakh residents is in the active phase of its implementation.

ArmInfo. The state housing program for Karabakh residents is in the active phase of implementation. This was announced at a press conference on November 9 by Gayane Karagyozyan, Advisor for the Coordination of Individual Functions of the Structural Units of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare of the Republic of Armenia.

According to her, there has been an increase in both requests for assistance and the use of housing certificates. According to the current situation, there are 9,042 approved certificates, covering approximately 32,000 people. Of this number, 5,372 individuals have already used their housing certificates. Therefore, taking into account the number of family members, it can be said that approximately 25,000 people already have a roof over their heads or are building their own homes. Of the total number of people who applied for housing certificates, only 396 decided to build their own homes, of which 107 completed the entire construction.

Karagezian noted that, given the exhaustion of the secondary housing market, many applicants have begun to prioritize the housing construction component. The Ministry, in turn, is taking steps to improve the terms of this component so that beneficiaries do not have problems with either banks or construction companies. The distribution of housing in the region shows that the Kotayk region leads the way, with 1,534 beneficiaries seeking new homes, followed by the Ararat and Armavir regions (830 and 748 beneficiaries, respectively), Yerevan (538 beneficiaries), and others.

In 2027, 42 billion drams are planned to be allocated for the implementation of this program.

It should be noted that the state housing program for families internally displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh is being implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Welfare of Armenia. The program includes three main areas: providing a certificate for the purchase of an apartment, including in buildings under construction or a residential building; providing a certificate for the construction of an individual residential building; and assistance in repaying an existing mortgage loan. The amount of financial support depends on the chosen locality: 5 million drams - when purchasing or building housing in one of the 242 approved rural and urban settlements, 4 million drams - when purchasing or building housing in other regional settlements of Armenia or in communities adjacent to Yerevan, 3 million drams - in Yerevan, with the exception of the 1st and 2nd zones of the capital.