A total of 52,385 homeless families were rehabilitateed by providing land and houses through Ashrayan Project among eight districts of Rangpur division in the past 15 years.

Sources said the government provided a house including two decimal of land to every homeless family.

Panchagarh, Dinajpur and Thakurgaon have become homeless-free-district now in the division.

The government started work of the Ashrayan Project in 1997 through Prime Minister Office. The project provided houses to 8 lakh 47,020 families from 1997 to 2023.

A total of 32 districts and 394 upazilas have freed of landless and homeless at present, said a press release.

The landless and homeless people in the country have decreased.