How can orphans get housing? Are there special housing...?

Article 32 of the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring Organizational and Legal Conditions for the Social Protection of Orphans and Children Deprived of Parental Care" guarantees the preservation of orphan children's right to housing in which they lived with their parents and relatives.

Article 33 of the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring Organizational and Legal Conditions for the Social Protection of Orphans and Children Deprived of Parental Care" orphans and children deprived of parental care who have reached the age of 16, if they do not have housing, have the right to enroll in apartment accounting and social apartment accounting.

Children are enrolled in this apartment registration according to their place of origin or residence until guardianship is established. From the age of 16, you can register at the request of a guardian or custodian, adoptive parents, foster parents, the administration of the institution where the child lives, or the body of guardianship and guardianship.

Such apartment registration is carried out by local self-government bodies (local councils), which actually provide social housing to persons registered in the apartment registration.

In Ukraine, there are regional and regional programs to support orphans and children deprived of parental care for the period from 2021 to 2023 or 2025. These programs provide for the conditions and procedure for the purchase of housing for orphans, children deprived of parental care, and persons from their number aged 18 to 23, under the conditions of co-financing from the regional budget and local budgets.