It is planned to build housing for IDPs on the basis of a damaged building in Voznesensk: the local government is seeking donors

Meeting of the public council on IDP issues in Voznesensk. Photo: NikVesti

In Voznesensk, they want to build housing for internally displaced persons on the basis of a non-residential building damaged by shelling. The local government is looking for donors to finance the project.

This is stated in the article NikVesti «From occupation to new opportunities: How a resettled woman from Oleshky opened a coffee shop in Voznesensk.»

According to Yelyzaveta Sokolova, deputy of the Voznesensk City Council, the community faces the problem of allocating housing for internally displaced persons.

«We constantly raise this issue with donors, but it has not yet been resolved. If we managed to accommodate at least 100 people, it would be a significant result,» the deputy noted.

She added that due to the lack of affordable housing, some IDPs are forced to leave Voznesensk, despite the availability of work, because housing rents remain too high.

The chief specialist of the sector of external relations and project activities of the Voznesensk City Council, Olena Biela, reported that the local government submitted a project for the construction of social housing on the basis of one of the damaged buildings for consideration by donors. However, it has not yet been possible to obtain full funding.

«This is a multimillion-dollar project that involves the reconstruction of a non-residential building into a 24-apartment residential building. One-room and two-room apartments for IDPs are planned in it. The project is ready, but it needs support, which we have not yet received in full. Unfortunately, at the moment, no donor is ready to fully finance the project, although some offer help with certain types of work,» she explained.

They want to renovate the non-residential premises of the station of young technicians at the address of st. Omelianovycha-Pavlenka, 20

Settlers in Mykolaiv Oblast

As of the beginning of 2024, there were more than 129,000 displaced people in the Mykolaiv region. According to Oksana Yelchiieva, director of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of Mykolaiv Oblast, out of 129 thousand, there are more than 74 thousand women, 34 thousand children, 10 thousand elderly people and five thousand people with special needs.

In December 2023 , the construction of 26 houses for displaced persons was announced in the city of Pervomaisk. Funds for this will be raised from international donors. Also, a center for the accommodation of IDPs will be set up in the building of a destroyed hospital in the village of Shevchenkove.

In February, it was reported that in one district of Mykolaiv, a dormitory is being renovated, where internally displaced persons will be accommodated. When it will be ready for settlement and how it can be done, NikVesti told in more detail.

The day before, in September 2023, the Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, said that almost 180,000 IDPs receive financial assistance by mistake. Among them was also a resident of Pervomaisk, who was found guilty in February 2024.