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From 32 thousand promised apartments to 60 purchased…
In the spring of 2022, the Ukrainian authorities announced a large-scale program to provide housing for internally displaced persons. It was about tens of thousands of new apartments within a few months, and the total need for displaced people was then estimated at almost 600 thousand apartments.
On 11 April 2022, then-deputy head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko said that they planned to build not modular towns but “normal buildings” for IDPs. The first stage involved 10 regions and several tens of thousands of mostly two-room, as well as one- and three-room apartments. According to Tymoshenko, projects were chosen so they could be completed in about three months. The first apartments were to be received by displaced people within 3–4 months.
At the end of April the plans were specified. At that time the total need for housing for IDPs was estimated at almost 600 thousand apartments, and by the end of 2022 that year the state planned to build 30 thousand apartments worth 36 billion UAH.
Later the plan became even more ambitious. Over the course of the year, the authorities expected to obtain 53,4 thousand apartments for approximately 186 thousand people. Of these, about 32 thousand apartments were to be built from scratch, and another 21,4 thousand to be purchased from developers.
In May the wording became even more specific. Official regional administration resources published notices titled “The state is building 32 thousand apartments for displaced persons.” It was already about 16 regions of Ukraine, 2 thousand apartments in each.
The plans were not publicly abandoned even after several months. In August 2022 the deputy head of the OP said that multiapartment buildings for displaced people in relatively safe regions could be erected in 5–6 months, and that suitable land plots with utilities had already been selected.
The approximate cost was given at the level of $700 per square meter including furniture. At the end of August the Office of the President also reported a separate project of five-story buildings in six regions for people who had lost their homes.
However, the actual result turned out to be of a completely different scale. Under the Derzhmolodzhytlo mechanism, in 2022 the agency received 100 million UAH of humanitarian aid, with which they purchased 60 apartments for the needs of displaced people and those who had lost their homes.
Not 30 thousand and not 32 thousand. Sixty apartments. Housing was purchased in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions. Already in October 2022 the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development reported that 211 displaced people and people who had lost their homes were living in these apartments.
Moreover, this figure did not remain just an interim result of the program’s first months. As of 2026, Derzhmolodzhytlo continues to name these 60 apartments as the result of the social rental program launched in 2022.
Essentially, at first it was about several tens of thousands of apartments within 3–4 months. Then about 30 thousand new apartments by the end of the year. Then about 32 thousand apartments in 16 regions, and the overall plan of construction and purchase of housing envisaged 53,4 thousand apartments for approximately 186 thousand people.
As a result, a huge gap emerged between the public statements and the actual outcome of this program.
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