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TOKİ
Turkey's government-backed housing agency From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TOKİ (Turkish: Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı, literally "Mass Housing Development Administration") is Turkey's government-backed housing agency.
Founded in 1984, TOKİ carries out projects and activities primarily throughout Turkey in line with the government building and mass housing priorities.[1] In 2004 the Government enabled the Districts with a new municipality law to cooperate with TOKİ to develop unprivileged areas.[2]
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Domestic Projects
Projects include:
- Regeneration and transformation of informal areas and settlements (gecekondu)
- Social housing projects toward the middle- and low-income categories
- Establishing model settlement units in our medium-scale provinces and districts
- Developing historic fabric and local architecture
- Educational and social facilities
- Reconstruction activities and disaster relief
TOKİ aims to complete 1 million housing units by the end of 2023 and plans to complete 64,000 units in 2017, worth $2.5 billion.[1][3]
As of June 2017, TOKİ has delivered;[4]
- Over 590,000 housing units, 86% of which are classified as social housing which targets lower income groups.
- 563 schools
- Over 10,000 social facilities including sport halls, cultural centers, libraries, mosques, commercial centers and hospitals.
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International Projects
TOKİ carries out mainly disaster relief and reconstruction activities worldwide, in cooperation with other international aid agencies.
Projects completed include;[5]
Awards
- HABITAT Scroll of HONOR in 1994 for the Erzincan Earthquake Reconstruction Project.
- International Award for Entrepreneurship in Real Estate and Housing Development in 2008, Expo Italia Real Estate
- HABITAT Best Practice Award in 2008 for the Erzincan Çarşı Quarter Urban Renewal-Slum Transformation Project[5]
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