The Rada is seeking a new source of funding for the e-Recovery program

Olena Shulyak, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on the Organization of State Power and Local Self-Government, explained that the compensation mechanism for damaged and destroyed housing has been in place for three years, but its effectiveness directly depends on the availability of funding.

According to her, the state continues to seek additional resources both from international partners and at the local budget level, since the mere issuance of a housing certificate without actual financial backing does not solve people’s problems.

Shulyak noted that at the start of the full-scale invasion, parliament passed legislation allowing Ukrainians to receive compensation for damaged or completely destroyed housing. This includes both housing certificates and funding for the reconstruction of private homes or the repair of damaged housing.

International partners are already providing some of the funding for the program. In particular, the World Bank supports the compensation program for damaged housing, while the Council of Europe Development Bank helps finance certificates for people whose homes have been completely destroyed.

How local budgets are expected to be involved in the programs

At the same time, according to Shulyak, local governments could also become more actively involved in the programs. A similar model is already in place under the eOselya program, where individual cities and regions cover part of the down payment or interest rate for certain categories of citizens.

She cited Kryvyi Rih, Ternopil, and Mykolaiv as examples.

According to the MP, there is particular potential in the budgets of communities in temporarily occupied territories, which continue to receive revenue from entrepreneurs and businesses registered there.

As an example, Shulyak cited some communities in the Luhansk region. There, people are already being allocated 250,000 hryvnias for the down payment under the eOselya program, and the Severodonetsk administration has launched a program for IDPs aged 60 and older.

“They are doing everything possible to ensure that the budgets of these temporarily occupied communities are used to address housing issues. It is important here to investigate and see exactly how people from these communities can receive appropriate funding from their local budgets,” the MP explained.

She also noted that officials from TOT communities continue to work despite the occupation and are often displaced persons themselves.

What is being proposed for frontline territories

Another area of support could be the construction of housing for residents of occupied cities in other regions of Ukraine. As an example, Shulyak mentioned a joint project between Mariupol and Bila Tserkva, where they plan to create a separate neighborhood for Mariupol residents.

Separately, parliament is working on a compensation mechanism for frontline and virtually completely destroyed settlements, where it is impossible to conduct a standard inspection of every building.

To this end, Bill No. 11444 was introduced in 2024. The bill provides for the possibility of declaring not individual apartments or houses, but entire streets, neighborhoods, or settlements unfit for habitation. This will allow people to obtain housing certificates more quickly without additional procedures.

According to her, the adoption of this bill is also important for frontline communities themselves, where commissions should not have to waste time on procedures whose outcome is obvious given the scale of the destruction.

"Let’s hope this bill reaches the session hall in the near future," Shulyak concluded.

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