Ministry for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine invites international partners and investors to joint social and affordable housing projects at ReBuild Ukraine
The sixth International Exhibition and Conference ReBuild Ukraine, held in partnership with the European Commission, is taking place on 12-13 November in Warsaw. The event brings together representatives of partner governments, international financial institutions, businesses and more than 100 Ukrainian communities. The Ministry for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine is represented at the conference by Deputy Minister Artem Husak.
At the conference, the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine presented to partners and investors the state housing recovery programs for citizens who lost their homes to armed aggression by Russia, as well as social housing projects in communities, including energy-resilient housing for Kryvyi Rih and Mariupol.
At the Recovery Construction Forum, Artem Husak took part in a panel discussion on priorities, financing and scaling up housing recovery in 2027. He spoke about the housing policy aimed at building a range of tools to provide citizens with homes: social and affordable rental housing and mortgage lending. He also stressed the need to combine budget funds, resources of international financial institutions and private investment. The Ministry invited international partners and investors to work with communities on the next social and affordable housing projects.
"Every family that has lost its home to the war has its own situation and its own options. A mortgage will suit some, affordable rent others, and some will need social housing. We want each of these families to have a path to a new home. The state cannot rebuild everything Russia destroyed on its own, so we invite partners and investors to build this housing together with communities," said Artem Husak.
The Deputy Minister also spoke at the session "Financing Municipal Infrastructure under the Ukraine Investment Framework (UIF)." He noted that, despite the growth in available funding, many communities struggle to prepare projects in line with the requirements of international financial institutions. The Ministry proposed that partners base municipal investments on the priorities set in communities' medium-term plans, step up technical assistance to small and medium-sized communities in preparing projects, and provide a larger share of grant funding for communities hit hardest by the war or hosting large numbers of IDPs. Partner banks presented their programs for financing community projects, and participants discussed the capacity constraints that keep communities from making full use of this potential. The Ministry is working with international financial institutions and offering communities concrete initiatives, such as training 1,000 project managers, so that the funding, worth hundreds of millions of euros, can go to community projects starting next year.
"Communities know best what they need, and they have already set these priorities in their plans. We propose that partners build on them. At the same time, many communities, especially small ones, lack the specialists and funds to prepare a project the way international banks require. That is why, together with partners, we want to strengthen communities' capacity so they can prepare quality projects themselves and attract funding for them," Artem Husak stressed.
On the sidelines of the conference, the Deputy Minister held bilateral meetings with Liina Vahtras, Estonia's Minister of Economy and Industry; representatives of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the KfW development bank; Haris Theoharis, Greece's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; and representatives of the European Investment Bank and the Ukraine Facility Audit Board. The parties discussed providing IDPs with social housing, involving business in rebuilding, supporting communities during the autumn and winter period, and preparing for the Ukraine Recovery Conference URC-2027 in Tallinn.