TOKİ
Toplu Konut İdaresi | |
Bilkent Plaza in Ankara, the Headquarters of TOKİ. | |
Department overview | |
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Formed | 1984 |
Jurisdiction | Turkey |
Headquarters | Ankara |
Department executive |
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Parent Ministry | Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning (Turkey) |
Website | www |
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]
Domestic Projects
[edit]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.
International Projects
[edit]TOKİ carries out mainly disaster relief and reconstruction activities worldwide, in cooperation with other international aid agencies.
Projects completed include;[5]
- 1050 houses in Aceh, Indonesia
- 500 houses in Sri Lanka
- 4620 houses and 37 social facilities in Pakistan
- 200-bed hospital and 40-class nurse college in Somalia
Awards
[edit]- 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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "TOKİ". www.toki.gov.tr. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ Seda Yüksel, Ayse (2015-04-10). Gambetti, Zeynep; Jongerden, Joost (eds.). The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective. Routledge. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-317-58150-5.
- ^ "Turkey Housing Agency Sees Record Business Worth $2.5 Billion". Bloomberg.com. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "TOKİ | Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı". TOKİ. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ a b "TOKİ > International Experience". www.toki.gov.tr. Retrieved 20 July 2017.