The problem of providing the citizens of our state with affordable housing has always been acute and solved in different ways in different times. Today, this issue has become especially vital.

According to Natalia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister of the Development of Communities and Territories, over 4.6 million people are registered in Ukraine as those that had to leave their homes. At the same time, more than 300 thousand residential facilities are damaged or destroyed. Although restoration is under way, it is also important to use the potential of vacant immovable property including buildings, land, and other facilities that can be converted into housing for the internally displaced people. Collaboration with the Habitat for Humanity will enable us to pursue a systemic approach to using the available resources and possible enlargement of the housing stock.

Habitat for Humanity International has many years of experience in this field. In 2022, the organization found over 63 thousand vacant facilities in the municipal housing stock in Poland and delivered pilot projects to transform them in Warsaw and Katowice. In 2023 in the UK, they formed a national database of over 165 thousand idle premises and developed a step-by-step instrument to

The Ministry and Habitat for Humanity Ukraine have signed a memorandum of understanding and started cooperation aimed at providing the internally displaced with housing. The project is focused on identifying, assessing and classifying vacant buildings and premises in order to convert them into affordable housing for IDP. Please read more here.

“A prominent physicist and mathematician Leonhard Euler once said there were no absolutely correct solutions and one had to choose the most appropriate in a given time in a given place.

I was directly involved in creating new opportunities for various categories of people that needed governmental support to purchase the housing. Each of the applied methods yielded positive results and resulted in providing a great number of our citizens with homes.

Time requires new, comprehensive approaches to solving the problem. The published information concerns a certain segment of measures.

At present, drastic changes are planned to be made in the legislation about rented housing, some groundbreaking changes both from the viewpoint of our current situation and further progress toward civilized market transformations. Besides, representative of our Guild also contributed to drafting the legislative motions.

Reforming the organizational and legal grounds of the housing provision should be following by revising the technical standards. Such a complex approach will enhance the probability of resolving the perpetual problem of providing people with housing,” says Dr. Oleksandr Nepomnyashchyy, ICEG president, merited builder of Ukraine.