In Zhytomyr, a residential complex is planned to be built for forced migrants under a program financed by the European Union, as reported by the Zhytomyr City Council.
The plan includes the construction of four multi-story buildings with 116 one and two-bedroom apartments in the Red Lane of the city. The ground-floor accommodations will be inclusive, equipped with showers featuring fold-down seats, as well as necessary handrails near all sanitary facilities.
Solar panels will be installed on each building, and the apartments will be heated by a solid-fuel boiler room. The new housing will be heated using energy from local production.
"The quarter will be connected to a combined heat and power plant operating on solid fuel. This refers to a boiler room built with funds from the government of the Swiss Confederation, producing thermal and electric energy and operating on biomass – wood chips," writes the city council.
In the basement of one of the buildings, a shelter will be arranged where residents of the entire complex can take refuge. The apartments will also be furnished with household appliances and furniture. The complex will be able to accommodate over 400 people, and they will receive the apartments for use free of charge.
As per one of the EU requirements, the apartments are to remain in communal ownership and cannot be privatized within the next ten years after the introduction of these buildings into operation.
The housing will be constructed in 2024 under the programme "Housing for Internally Displaced Persons and Restoration of Liberated Cities in Ukraine," financed by the European Union. Besides Zhytomyr, the program includes five more cities: Dubno, Kovel, Lviv, Makariv, and Chernivtsi.
