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🏙️ Development of the State Housing Policy Strategy has begun 

📆 On 26 September 2025, the first meeting of the Technical Working Group of the Interagency Working Group on the development of the State Housing Policy Strategy was held. The Technical Working Group was chaired by Nataliia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine.

Items for discussion:

🔹 Proposals for the work plan and timeline of the Technical Working Group.

🔹 Regulatory requirements for the structure and content of the draft State Housing Policy Strategy in line with current legislation.

🔹 Formation of working subgroups to prepare the draft Strategy and the organization of their activities.
🔹 Cooperation with international organizations and civil society, and proposals for further interaction.

Participants from the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine (CBU):

👤 Oleksandr Chervak, Executive Director of the CBU

👤 Anatolii Berkuta, Vice President of the CBU

👤 Anna Laievska, Head of the CBU Committee on Development

Speakers:

🗣️ Nataliia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
🗣️ Vasyl Vynohradov, Head of the Department for Housing Policy Formation, Department of Housing Policy and Improvement of the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
🗣️ Serhii Komnatnyi, Housing Policy and Urban Development Expert, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

🔑 During the meeting, the key stages of the Technical Working Group’s work plan and the overall logic, structure, and approaches to shaping the content of the future Strategy were reviewed.

The timeline provides for four consecutive stages:
1️⃣ Preparatory – data collection and consultations with partners;
2️⃣ Analytical – assessment of the housing market situation and current programs;
3️⃣ Drafting the Strategy content – preparation of text blocks in subgroups, discussions at seminars and with experts;
4️⃣ Coordination and finalization – preparation of the final text for submission to the Government.

Serhii Komnatnyi outlined the requirements to be developed for each section of the Strategy:

🔸 analysis of the current state, trends, and justification of the need to address identified problems;

🔸 strategic goals and indicators for their achievement;

🔸 tasks aimed at achieving the set goals;

🔸 stages of implementation;

🔸 expected results at each stage (reflecting the planned pace of achieving target indicators and the estimated volume of necessary financial, material and technical, human, and other resources).

To ensure effective work on the content, six thematic subgroups were formed:

1️⃣ International obligations and national context.
Responsible body: Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine (MinRegion).
Coordinator: Serhii Komnatnyi

2️⃣ Housing stock, recovery, and management.
Responsible body: MinRegion.
Coordinator: Tetiana Boiko, co-founder, board member and coordinator of housing and communal programs of the civic network OPORA

3️⃣ Right to housing. Implementation, mechanisms.
Responsible body: MinRegion.
Coordinator: Alina Moskalenko, Director of the NGO “Housing Institute”

4️⃣ Construction of new housing.
Responsible body: MinRegion.
Coordinator: Iryna Lahunova, Senior Project Manager (construction) at MinRegion

5️⃣ Financing of housing construction.
Responsible body: Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine.
Coordinator to be determined later.

6️⃣ Digitalization of processes. Transparency.
Responsible body: Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Coordinator: Oleksandr Dudchenko, Head of the Project Office for Portfolio Management of Digital Projects at the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine.

It was also decided that the working group will meet once every two weeks.

💬 “For the Ministry, openness and transparency of the Strategy development process, as well as combining a professional approach with expert knowledge, are extremely important. We are working systematically on shaping a modern housing policy. There are still many steps ahead, but the result is worth every effort — as this is about decent, safe, and affordable housing for every Ukrainian,” emphasized Nataliia Kozlovska during the meeting.

🤝 She also stressed that the active participation of civil society representatives and the support of international partners, who are already joining the process, are particularly valuable:

Habitat for Humanity, Helvetas Ukraine, UN-Habitat Office in  Ukraine, Council of Europe Office in Ukraine – Kyiv, Eesti Korteriühistute Liit, European Commission, European Investment Bank – Ukraine, European Investment Bank, KfW Bankengruppe, IOM Ukraine, IFC – International Finance Corporation, World Bank Ukraine, World Bank, UNHCR Ukraine – the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine, UNECE, Norwegian Refugee Council in Ukraine, Caritas Kyiv Charity Foundation.

Among national partners: the All-Ukrainian Council of Condominium Association Heads, the Association of Housing Managers, CO “Housing Ukraine,” the Developers’ Association, and the Charity Organization “Depaul Ukraine.”

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