LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

5.3. Tbilisi place to live action plan
The main objectives set to follow the chosen strategic city development direction are as
follows: to create conditions for a comprehensive development for Tbilisi residents, to
encourage their identification with the city as well as to create a modern and functional
urban space.
The quality of local residents’ life depends on their dwelling conditions, natural
environment and the accessibility of modern communal infrastructure. The existing
housing resources do not provide every family with a separate apartment. However, the
actual deficit may turn out to be larger because many apartment blocks have to be pulled
down due to their technical state or land development works (new roads and others).
Also, a tendency has been observed for the families to shrink in size. The city is facing
the problem of recapitalization of housing and infrastructural resources. It also has a large
share of poor quality urban space. These are mainly worn out buildings with insufficient
facilities. Some of them are in danger of collapsing and need to be immediately pulled
down. In order to lessen the housing deficit and improve local dwelling conditions it is
necessary to build new houses and to modernize most of the existing ones, taking into
consideration the need to upgrade the urban space and technical standards. What is
more, some of the residents have limited access to water supply and disposal facilities. It
seems absolutely necessary to invest in this sector in order to make the city function
smoothly and enhance the local quality of life.
The problems underlying the choice of the program are:
a growing number of families whose situation, mainly the material one, prevents them
from maintaining their own apartment, which results in an increased demand for social
housing,
insufficient supply of housing for moderate income families and young people,
arrears in renovating the city material property (housing and infrastructural resources),
which has led to worsening local everyday living conditions as well as has triggered
some undesirable social phenomena,
the need to revitalize and transform much of the urban functional space,
insufficient technical infrastructure in the developed areas and in the areas to be
developed in future, which is hindering new constructions,
poor offer of attractive construction lots directed to high income residents,
downgraded natural environment resources.
The primary objective is to improve the quality of life in Tbilisi and to increase the
attractiveness of dwellings. Once this objective has been realized, the housing deficit will
decrease, its quality will improve, the number of migrants will be reduced and the local
economy will grow. The proposed activities are oriented at investors (the individual ones,
developers, housing cooperatives, real estate and city managers, the communal
infrastructure managers) and at all those who would like to settle down in Tbilisi