Ukraine is working on new housing modernization and studying the EU’s experience.

The Ukrainian Parliament is studying the possibility of using European experience to solve the problem of its outdated housing stock – in particular, small-scale Khrushchevka apartment housing, said the head of the committee on urban planning, Olena Shulyak.

She clarified that Ukraine is developing a housing policy guided by EU experience. Among the methods popular in the EU are the addition of additional floors, reconstruction of apartments to increase their area, construction in the area between the apartment buildings, and the demolition of entire districts to build a new homes in their place.

In Ukraine, processes related to the reconstruction of outdated housing are still regulated by ineffective legislation adopted in 2006.

In the EU countries, a program for the liquidation of buildings with unsatisfactory living conditions provides for several subsidies to the homeowner for the demolition and reconstruction of dilapidated housing, and the reconstruction itself is mainly carried out without eviction or resettlement of residents, with the maximum possible maintenance of normal living conditions for these homeowners.