Actual issues of Housing Affordability in Ukraine

Abstract

Ensuring housing affordability is an urgent task of social and housing policy of Ukraine especially in conditions of full-scale war. In Ukraine, a full-scale military invasion has caused and continues to cause huge losses in all spheres of society every day, destroy residential and non-residential real estate and other infrastructure. In March 2023, the World Bank estimated the cost of recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine at $411 billion [1].

The purpose of the paper is the methodological determination of housing affordability indicator, the assessment of its pre-war trend in Ukraine; and determination of an acceptable for modern and postwar conditions institutional mechanism for improving housing affordability based on the principle of rent.