The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered a profound housing crisis, resulting from both large-scale destruction and unprecedented displacement. Housing has emerged as one of the most severely affected sectors, and access to adequate accommodation remains among the most urgent needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to World Bank estimates, 13 percent of Ukraine’s housing stock has been damaged or destroyed, impacting approximately 2.5 million households. This poses not only a long-term challenge for post-war reconstruction but also a pressing social policy and humanitarian concern. The lecture will examine the war’s impact on Ukraine’s housing sector, assess the challenges faced by IDPs, and analyze policy responses to the housing crisis as well as actors shaping housing provision at different levels. Special attention will be given to the rental housing market and its role in accommodating the IPDs within this war-induced crisis.
Galyna Sukhomud is a research associate at the department ‘Social Cohesion, Diversity and Migration in Spatial Planning’ department at TU Berlin. She holds an M.Sc. in European Urban Studies from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is the coordinator of the working group Crises, Conflict, and Recovery at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), and a member of the Ukrainian NGO and research collective New Housing Policy. Among other topics, she works with social and housing policies, housing and post-war reconstruction, rental market regulation, and interaction between housing and migration dynamics.
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