Local authorities in Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mykolaiv face massive repair backlogs with no municipal budget. Damaged common spaces are blocking 25% of residents from eVidnovlennia compensation.
For total-loss households, the land still belongs to them. Duplexes on owned plots could reach two categories of need — landowners and IDPs without land — in a single intervention.
Near the front line, collective centre repair is still urgent. Further away, the transition to temporary housing (Resolution 495) and social housing (Law 12377, Art. 29) must begin now.
Cat. 1 cannot address structural damage. Rural families will not leave their land. Apartments with blast damage sit in a policy void. The case for Cat. 2 as a humanitarian priority — and what donors need to understand.