Kyiv Housing Flash Diagnosis

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has displaced over 10 million Ukrainians and severely damaged or destroyed one out of every eight Ukrainian homes. Since the war began in 2022, AHI has been working, first pro-bono and now via key entities such as Ukraine's Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories (MinDev), the World Bank, and Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), to help Ukraine become ready for, fund, and then implement the rehousing of Ukraine. 

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Building on our Rehousing Ukraine Initiative, we began advising the World Bank in 2024 as principal affordable housing finance experts, working with MinDev on what has become a landmark new law on the fundamental principles of housing policy. The law, which was passed by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) in early 2026, lays the foundation for all legal and subsidy arrangements for the future of housing in Ukraine, including further laws on social and affordable housing, mortgage banking, and more.

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According to the IOM, most of Ukraine’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) rely on the rental sector, facing high rent costs, eviction risks, and limited access to adequate accommodation. In 2025, AHI worked with AFD to assess Ukraine’s affordable housing sector and build a financial model to demonstrate alternative scenarios for funding and subsidizing social housing in Ukraine. This lays the groundwork for a sustainable social rental housing system in Ukraine, with pilot social housing properties likely to be funded out of a portion of the recently approved €90 billion in European funding.