TOKİ

TOKÄ° (, literally "Mass Housing Development Administration") is Turkey's government-backed housing agency.

Founded in 1984, TOKÄ° carries out projects and activities primarily throughout Turkey in line with the government building and mass housing priorities. In 2004 the Government enabled the Districts with a new municipality law to cooperate with TOKÄ° to develop unprivileged areas.

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

TOKÄ° 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.

As of June 2017, TOKÄ° has delivered;

• 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

TOKÄ° carries out mainly disaster relief and reconstruction activities worldwide, in cooperation with other international aid agencies.

Projects completed include;

• 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

• 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

References

External links

• Official website of TOKÄ°