The RA government has approved large-scale changes to the state housing program for families forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, significantly simplifying the conditions of support and increasing the amount of funding for a number of communities.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that the decision is aimed at the prompt solution of the problems that appeared in the legal practice. As explained by the Minister of ASR, Arsen Torosyan, one of the key innovations is to recognize children born before the end of 2026 as full beneficiaries of the program, regardless of the application submission dates. In addition, the bureaucratic process has been radically simplified. previously denied citizens will automatically receive beneficiary status if state bases certify that they worked or studied in Karabakh for at least one year between September 2020 and December 2022.
The financial mechanisms of the project have also become more flexible. From now on, the state support covers not only the classic mortgage, but also consumer loans secured by real estate taken until July 2025 for the purpose of refinancing housing loans. The rules for the use of residual funds were also revised. the purchase of furniture and appliances can now be carried out by direct transfer to the seller, based on an expanded list of tax documents.
Significant changes have been made in the financial geography of the project. About 150 communities adjacent to Yerevan have been moved to a higher support group. the payments there increased from three to four million drams per person. Thus, the three million dram certificate will be valid only in the capital, five million drams in the separate border zones, and in all other marzes the amount will be four million drams. Out of 5,232 housing certificates provided, 2,336 have already been successfully used for the purpose of buying or building new houses.
The mass deportation of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh took place in the fall of 2023. On September 19, Azerbaijan started a large-scale military operation in the region, which ended a day later with the agreement of a ceasefire and the disarmament of local self-defense forces. Due to security reasons, more than 100 thousand people, almost the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh, left their homes through the Lachin Corridor and moved to Armenia within a few days. Soon, the leadership of the unrecognized republic signed a decree on the termination of its existence. In order to accommodate and integrate forcibly displaced people, the Armenian government launched a number of state initiatives, including the aforementioned housing program.
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