Draft bill #11161 of April 10, 2024
Status: sent for review to the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Economic Development
Cosponsors: a group of 21 MPs from the factions European Solidarity, Holos, and Servant of the People with Artur Herasymov as the first signatory
Who is affected: people whose property was damaged or destroyed in the course of Russian aggression and the Ministry for the Development of Communities, Territories, and Infrastructure
Summary:
- people whose housing located in territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation or combat zones was destroyed or damaged will be able to apply to receive compensation for it
- no inspection of the destroyed or damaged property will be conducted
- damaged real property in the temporarily occupied territories will be equated to destroyed real property
- a person applying for compensation for housing located in temporarily occupied territories will relinquish their ownership rights to that property to the state.
What is right: people who used to live in temporarily occupied territories or combat zones will be able to apply for housing compensation.
Background information: on March 17, 2023, the President of Ukraine signed a law on compensation for damaged and destroyed housing. We described the shortcomings of this law here. On May 10, the procedure for providing compensation for damaged housing under the e-Recovery program started.
Additional information:
- Ok, So What? podcast, ep. 139: What’s new about housing compensation?
- article by Oleh Savychuk: Post-war reconstruction of communities and compensations: how it will work and why local authorities will remain silent