 During the years 1923–1928, the Greek state built 25,000 houses for the refugees.The "Institute for the relief of the Refugees" (ΕΑΠ, EAP) built another 27,000 houses (11,000 only in Attica).The same institute spent an estimated 2,422,961 English pounds in order to house 165,000 refugees in Athens and Thessaloniki.