Funds from the special fund of the state budget will be allocated to a new component of the e-Recovery program. This component is designed to support internally displaced persons from temporarily occupied territories who have the status of combatants or persons with war-related disabilities.
Starting December 1, 2025, a new tool developed by the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine became available to them—housing vouchers worth 2 million hryvnias, which can be used to purchase housing.
“We are launching funding for a new component of the e-Recovery program—‘Housing for Internally Displaced Persons from Temporarily Occupied Territories.’ Very soon, after the completion of budgetary procedures, people will be able to reserve funds and purchase housing. The tool allows people to receive assistance from the state even in cases where their housing remains in the temporarily occupied territory. Supporting people who were forced to leave their homes due to the occupation is one of the Ministry’s key priorities. This is just the start of the program’s funding. “At the same time, we are working with international partners and donors to expand its funding,” noted Deputy Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba.
Currently, over 32,000 applications have been submitted under the program. Of these, more than 20,000 have already received positive decisions from the relevant commissions in the communities.
The functionality for reserving funds and subsequently using vouchers has already been prepared. Recipients will be able to use them to purchase housing on the primary or secondary market, invest in new construction—including to make a down payment or repay a mortgage loan
Additionally, plans are underway to secure an additional €80 million in funding in the form of a loan from the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEDB). Work continues with international partners to further scale up the program.
The program’s coverage includes 23 regions of Ukraine and the city of Kyiv. The largest number of applications came from internally displaced persons living in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kyiv regions, as well as in the capital—ranging from 2,500 to nearly 5,000 in each region. At the same time, applications are processed most quickly by local government commissions in the Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and Volyn regions and the capital, where decisions have been made on over 80% of the submitted applications.
The program was developed by the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and in partnership with the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and the Ministry of Social Policy, Family, and Unity.
The program operates on the basis of the State Register of Damaged and Destroyed Property (RPDP). Partners include the Eurasia Foundation, the Eastern Europe Foundation, the Council of Europe Development Bank, and the World Bank (the “HOPE: Housing Repair for Empowerment and Opportunities for People” project).