Sienkevych plans to create a utility company that will deal with municipal housing in Mykolaiv

Gurtoitov for displaced people in Mykolaiv, archival photo «NikVesti»

In Mykolaiv, the authorities are working on the creation of a municipal housing fund and a utility company that will manage it.

This should solve the issue of providing housing for displaced persons and other socially vulnerable categories, Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

He said that today about 50,000 displaced people are officially registered in the city, but the city still does not ensure their right to housing in full.

«Thanks to cooperation with our foreign partners, in particular DRC (Danish Refugee Council, — note), we take care of construction and reconstruction issues, repair, for example, some dormitories, make a revolving fund to accommodate IDPs there.

We are also already working on the creation of a specialized municipal company. We plan to build housing and not transfer it into ownership, but make it, as, for example, in Germany, social housing with a special rate and accommodate there not only people who are unable to pay large sums, but also socially important segments of the population, doctors, teachers, etc.» Oleksandr Sienkevych said.

He added that the city will build such municipal housing, and the future utility company will manage it.

«We are already working with Denmark on the construction of such facilities, now we are in the stage of land allocation. These (social municipal housing, — note) will be separate objects. We formulated our wishes, our Danish partners identified a company that designs and intends to build, even without waiting for the end of the war,» he said.

For its part, the city is working on the charter of a new utility company, which will be the housing manager and, in fact, a revenue organization. Some of these apartments will be rented out at market prices, some at discounted prices.

«Our task is to create high-quality competitive housing, where we can rent out part of it at subsidized and part at market prices, so that people want and can live there,» Oleksandr Sienkevych said.