In post-war reconstruction, housing will be of the essence.
Housing will be crucial both in the short and the long run. Manpower will be required to rebuild the country and the most basic precondition for people to stay in or return to Ukraine is that their housing problem can be solved.
The war in Ukraine has caused a housing crisis.
Since the beginning of hostilities, nearly one-third of Ukrainians have been forced from their homes. Within Ukraine, 6.2 million people remain internally displaced by the war, and close to 7.8 million Ukrainian refugees are, at present, spread across Europe.
Over time, millions of Ukrainians will return but more immediately manpower will be needed to rebuild the country and housing will be crucial in the short term and long term. Already, more than six million people have returned home in Ukraine despite the war raging on.
The most basic precondition for people to stay in, or return to, Ukraine is that their housing problem can be solved. On the last day of the war, it will be too late to start preparing.
Now
is time to think about life and reconstruction after the war.
As many as three million Ukrainians are expected to leave their homes this winter, officials from the World Health Organization said Monday (21 Nov '22), as Ukraine’s government began helping residents evacuate areas where it says it cannot guarantee sufficient power and heat.
The voluntary evacuations began as Moscow’s increased assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure have affected residents across the country, raising fears about staying warm and obtaining basic necessities as rolling blackouts, water cuts and heating disruptions become the new normal.
For many in Europe, the rising cost of heating homes this winter has already caused alarm, contributing to soaring inflation and cutting into support for Ukraine in the war.
But in Ukraine itself, there is a far deeper worry — about where to live and keeping warm at all - now and in the future.
Modular communities provide rapid shelter for people who need it now. For the future, these communities will provide levels of sustainability and energy security meeting requirements for entry into the EU.
- The percentage of private renters is likely to increase;
- The post-war economy will enable more Ukrainians, in time, to purchase new homes; and,
- Ukraine recognises that it needs to expand its state-owned housing stock.
Russia’s war has undoubtedly provoked an unprecedented housing crisis, but it has also revealed the pre-existing frailties in Ukrainian housing policy that contributed to the scale of the current problem. And, the search for empty buildings to repurpose is a good start, but it simply isn’t enough...
Ucrain Nua is spearheading the construction of sustainable, modular micro-communities to help to meet this critical need.
The capacity for infrastructure such as schools, kindergarten, medical needs, retail and leisure will be optimised within this plan.
To accommodate this level of housing need, 360 million square metres of housing stock has to be built. In the period from 2018 to 2021, approximately 12 million square metres of residential houses were built per year in Ukraine. Following the example set following WW2 in Germany, it is possible, with international co-operation and drive, to triple the tempo suggesting 36 million square metres can be built per year.
This indicates a rough estimate of more than ten years of opportunity for the reconstruction program.
Ucrain-Nua is spearheading the creation of sustainable, modular micro-communities to help to meet this critical need with participation from innovative Irish and British companies.
The new houses will be of a much higher quality than their predecessors. They will meet the contemporary and forseeable future needs of their inhabitants in terms of number and size of rooms. They will be much more efficient in energy consumption and will provide more reliable public utility services, including sustainable renewable energy, self-sufficient food supply and super-fast internet.
The capacity for other infrastructure such as schools, kindergarten, medical needs, retail and leisure will also be optimised within this plan, taking into consideration not only pre-war reality in terms of needs, but also organic and desirable trends for the resident's future.
Ucrain Nua is here to help your company be part of this exciting opportunity. Contact us now to be ready to participate...
The numbers you need to know
850,000
people need urgent temporary accommodation.
100,000+
houses and apartment buildings in need of construction or repair
150,000
new social housing units required in sustainable communities
US$ 41bn
incl. temporary housing and re-build of damaged housing