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Housing for internally displaced persons in Ukraine is now built mostly by municipalities. Funding comes from several sources: the state subvention for temporary and supported housing, municipal rental housing programmes, and loans and grants from the EIB, NEFCO and other partners. In most of these programmes the client for a new apartment building is the

Law No. 4778-IX came into force on 8 September 2026. It amended Article 31 of the Law “On Regulation of Urban Development”: for new apartment buildings of consequence class CC2 and CC3 with more than 50 permanent or more than 100 periodic occupants, building civil protection shelters is now mandatory, and the design documentation includes

Labour shortage is one of the main problems of Ukraine’s recovery. For a client, “how many people do we need” matters as much as “how much does it cost”. We calculated it for a real project — a four-storey residential building with a basement that we designed for Latvia. Input data According to the project

Housing for internally displaced persons built with donor funds in Ukraine is designed with an energy-efficiency margin. In the NEFCO and EU programme for IDPs, buildings reach class B — about 58 kWh/m² per year — and are complemented by heat pumps and solar panels. For a municipality this means lower bills for residents and

Municipalities building housing for displaced people are usually short of time. The 2026 state subvention funds only standard or reused designs, donor programmes set energy-efficiency and shelter requirements, and the tender must be launched within the budget year. Starting from scratch — finding a designer, a plant and a contractor separately — is hard on