The Odesa region ranks among the top regions in terms of the number of housing vouchers used by internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons who relocated from the temporarily occupied territories to the Odesa region have used 298 vouchers to purchase housing under the e-Recovery program “Housing for IDPs from the TOT.”

According to the press service of the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine, the total value of the vouchers is 595.8 million hryvnias.

The Odesa region ranked third in this category. The Kyiv region took first place, with more than 500 vouchers totaling over 1 billion hryvnias used. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast came in second, with 342 vouchers worth 682.8 million hryvnias, while Kyiv ranked fourth, with 275 vouchers worth 549.6 million hryvnias.

More than 100 housing vouchers have already been used in the Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Cherkasy regions. In total, 3,000 vouchers have been used across 22 regions in Ukraine. These include the Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Poltava, Ternopil, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Kirovohrad, and Volyn regions.

“We are seeing tangible results from the program for people—3,000 families who lost their homes due to the war and were forced to leave the temporarily occupied territories have already finalized their transactions and purchased new homes. The total area of the purchased housing exceeded 165,000 square meters,” said Oleksiy Kuleba, Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine. 

More than 88% of the purchased housing consists of apartments, with another 10% or so being single-family homes. Nearly 87% of the housing was purchased on the secondary market. 

In total, more than 41,000 applications have been submitted to participate in the program. More than 33,000 of them have already been reviewed and approved by local commissions. During the first funding phase, 3,296 applications for housing vouchers were approved, totaling 6.6 billion hryvnias. Under the program’s terms, if reserved funds are not used within 60 days, they are returned to the program and allocated to subsequent applicants. In such cases, an applicant may resubmit an application and rejoin the waiting list.

Кирило Бойко