Number of Homes Built or Purchased: 147
Number of Renovations: 49
Areas included: Yerevan region, Ararat region, Aragatsotn region, Kotayk region, Armavir region, part of Gegharkunik region. For the list of communities, click here.
Global Village Teams Hosted: 31

Address in Yerevan
38 Cholakyan street,
Yerevan 0037,
Republic of Armenia
Telephone: +374 10 246023

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HOUSING NEED SPECIFICS

The major causes of housing need in the regions administered by HFH Yerevan are demographic: with the enlargement of the family, it becomes impossible for the families of two or three brothers to live in the same house with their parents. Many such families moved to temporary shelters like domiks (metal containers) and started to build a house for their family. But the economic crisis of 1990s, the manifold increase in the prices of construction materials, left thousands of houses unfinished, and domiks and cellars became the only home to these families. Apart from that, despite aid from government and Norwegian Refugee Council, there are still refugees livng in housing poverty.

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SPECIAL INITIATIVES:
Home to Each Family" Advocacy Project

With the assistance of CASP and CDPF, HFH Yerevan is currently implementing an adovacy project "Home to Each Family". The project aims at raising awareness about housing poverty and involving bodies of local self-governance in solving the housing problem in their communities.

In the framework of the poject HFH Yerevan organized a "Media Build" aiming at involving journalists as advocates for homeless families, and "Mayor Build", aiming at discussing the importance of state intervention in housing problems of vulnerable, low-income groups of population. In October there will be a cardboard box campaign "I live in domik" in Yerevan with the particpation of children who used to live in housing poverty.

The final goal of the project is to get the governments of Khor Virap and Voskevaz communities to adopt a decision to invest part of their local in alleviating housing poverty in their villages.

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Information on Yerevan:

The territory of Yerevan was settled in the fourth millennium BC, fortified settlements from the Bronze Age include Shengavit, Tsitsernakaberd, Karmir Blur, Arin Berd, Karmir Berd and Berdadzor. Archaeological evidence indicates that an Urartian military fortress called Erebuni was founded in 782 BC by the orders of King Argishtis I at the site of current-day Yerevan, to serve as a fort and citadel guarding against attacks from the north Caucasus.[3] Yerevan is thus one of the most ancient cities in the world. During the height of Urartian power, irrigation canals and an artificial reservoir were built on Yerevan's territory.

As a centre of Armenian culture, Yerevan is the site of Yerevan State University (1919), the Armenian Academy of Sciences, a historical museum, an opera house, a music conservatory and several technical institutes. The Matenadaran archives hold a rich collection of valuable ancient Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Hebrew, Roman and Persian manuscripts. Yerevan has several large public libraries, a number of museums and theaters, botanical gardens and zoos. It is also at the heart of an extensive rail network and is a major trading centre for agricultural products. In addition, industries in the city produce metals, machine tools, electrical equipment, textiles and food products.