Where and how to look for housing if your house was destroyed by fighting.
Internally displaced persons in Ukraine will be provided with housing free of charge at the place of actual residence, which will be provided at the expense of a special housing stock. The relevant procedure was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
According to the government decree of April 29, 2022 (№495) such the housing stock is formed by village, settlement, city councils or their authorized bodies by buying housing; construction of new facilities; reconstruction of existing buildings and dormitories, as well as conversion of non-residential premises into residential ones, etc.
Only vacant residential premises may be included in the fund. Residential premises from the fund are not subject to privatization, exchange and division, sublease, use for resettlement of other persons .
Internally displaced persons free of charge housing from the fund at the place of actual residence/stay .
The need for housing from the fund is determined in size at least 6 square meters. m per person.
Priority right to housing large families have from the fund; families with children; pregnant women; persons who have lost their ability to work; persons of retirement age among those whose housing was destroyed or unfit for habitation as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.
Sources of funding for the formation of the fund may be funds from the state, local budgets, international donors, voluntary contributions of individuals and legal entities, other sources not prohibited by law.
The conditions for the formation of the housing stock, as well as the provision of such housing to internally displaced persons for temporary residence in the case of using international donors may be determined by separate agreements with international donors and other documents equivalent to them.
The Ministry of Statistics has created a website to show places of free resettlement of temporarily displaced Ukrainians in the regions. The project aims to simplify the process of evacuation, finding housing and receiving humanitarian aid in a new place.
In addition to the number of places for free resettlement of temporarily displaced Ukrainians, the project website also has telephone numbers of contact centers in each region, where you can contact yourself with a request – local authorities will accompany evacuated Ukrainians from stations to resettlement.
At the five departure stations – in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhia and Lozova – stewards will register evacuees in a single system and help determine the location of the future temporary settlement.
At the four receiving stations – in Lviv, Uzhhorod, Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk – the evacuees, who have been registered, will be met by other railway employees and volunteers, who will hand them over to local authorities. Those, in turn, will take the evacuees from the station to the place of settlement.
It will be possible to register in the system not only at the station, but also in some trains.
The railway staff who will help with this will travel on the following flights (train numbers and routes may vary):
- №209/210 Kharkiv – Ivano-Frankivsk;
- №233/234 Pokrovsk – Chop;
- №219/220 Zaporizhia – Lviv;
- №238/237 Odessa – Uzhhorod;
- №136/135 Odessa – Chernivtsi;
- №13/14 Kyiv – Solotvino;
- №43/44 Kyiv – Ivano-Frankivsk;
- №45/46 Lozova – Uzhhorod.
Passengers will also be able to leave a request for evacuation with accommodation independently through the Ukrzaliznytsia Contact Center – operators will advise passengers on key issues and enter passenger data into the registration form.
