With the new single-family properties taking their final shape day by day, work has kicked off to construct multifamily homes for the quake-affected families in the new residential neighbourhood in Fushe Kruje and the project is scheduled to complete in the fall this year. A total of 120 multiple separate housing units in eight residential buildings will be constructed for the families that lost their homes in the tragic earthquake that hit the country on November 26, 2019.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, accompanied by the Minister of State for Reconstruction Arben Ahmetaj, and the Mayor of Kruje, Artur Bushi, visited the new “Rilindja” residential neighbourhood, where more than 1000 families will be housed once the construction work completes.

“This has been transformed into a residential area. We should now shift attention to the outdoor rehabilitation works, including tree planting in order for the new residential neighbourhood to take its final shape and a management structure is set up so that no illegal constructions take place in this area, but instead it becomes like other residential areas. A contract should be signed with each resident to tell them their obligations and determine the floor area everyone is entitled to benefit,” Prime Minister Edi Rama said.

Work is in full swing to rebuild new single-family homes, residential buildings, and new residential complexes for the families in the worst-hit areas by the Nob 26 earthquake, while a significant number of quake-affected families have already moved into their new homes built back better, larger and safer than the homes either destroyed or severely damaged by the tremor.

“Once the construction work completes, more than 200 local families here will live in much better and larger living spaces than they used to live prior to the earthquake,” Reconstruction Minister Ahmetaj said at the end of the inspection trip to the site of the new residential neighbourhood in Fushe-Kruje.