The Public Defender’s Special Report on the Monitoring of Social Housing, Shelters and Similar Institutions of Georgia assesses the actual situation in social housing and shelters in the light of national and international human rights standards.

The report is based on monitoring conducted in 2025 and includes an assessment of 18 social housing facilities, similar institutions and shelters located in 12 municipalities. Within the framework of the report, the institutions were assessed according to the following criteria: safety, suitability, sanitary and hygienic conditions, protection from climatic conditions, sufficiency of living space, access to basic services, service management and legal guarantees for beneficiaries.

The document emphasizes that Georgia still lacks a unified legal and standardized framework for the arrangement of social housing and shelters, which significantly hinders the effective realization of the right to adequate housing.

As a result of the monitoring, a number of serious challenges were identified in the housing sector. Among them, people's long-term living in buildings that pose a threat to health and life, serious violations of sanitary and hygienic norms, iving environment unprotected from climatic conditions, shortage of living space, absence of services or management, etc.

Along with the above-mentioned challenges, the report presents positive examples where the conditions of social housing and shelters generally comply with international standards of adequate housing.

The report provides recommendations to central and local authorities. The report and the recommendations issued will assist the addressees in identifying the problems existing in social housing, shelters and similar institutions in Georgia, finding ways to eliminate them, and addressing the fundamental challenges related to the right to adequate housing.