1,700 people, low-income families received social housing over last 5 years

Chisinau, 23 May /MOLDPRES/- About 1,700 people and low-income families have benefited from social housing over the past 5 years under a government-initiated project with the support of the Council of Europe Development Bank. Another 700 will receive keys to the housing by late 2019, the government’s communication  and protocol department has reported.

Beneficiaries are families with many children, people with special needs and employees in the budgetary sector who did not have sufficient resources to buy a home.

"It is important for us as a government can provide those who need a roof overhead, decent living conditions and hope for a better future for them and their families. That's why we work every day, " Prime Minister Pavel Filip said.

In 2014-2018, 484 social apartments were built and put into use in the districts: Călăraşi, Briceni, Sîngerei, Hânceşti, Soroca, Nisporeni, Leova, Falesti and Ialoveni. By late 2019 another 193 social housing will be completed in the district: Glodeni, Rezina, Cantemir, Cimislia and Cahul.

The social apartments were built during the second phase of the housing construction project for socially vulnerable people in Moldova, funded by BDCE, which offers our country a loan of about 13.4 million euros.

The project aims at completing blocks abandoned at different stages of completion, renovating hostels of educational institutions and rebuilding other unused public spaces that can be transformed into dwellings. Thus, about 2,400 low-income people could be provided with about 680 social housing.