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Land policy is an integral part of the accessibility and sustainability of our homes, as well as the inclusivity of our cities. Land policy also plays a crucial role in Ukraine's efforts to "Build back better" and achieve a just recovery.  In 2023, building on the report "Rebuilding a Place to Call Home – Sharing knowledge for the recovery of Ukraine" by PBL, we invited experts to consider the following issues:

-What are the key legislative and structural challenges in land policy to achieve a balanced and inclusive recovery of homes and places?

-How can private land use be reconciled with public interests and long-term goals of climate-neutral land use and affordable housing?

-What land use tools are available, and which ones should be developed in communities to promote affordable housing?

-Finally, what is the role of research and institutions at the national and local levels in this regard?

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We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who participated in our event! We are genuinely pleased with our presenters and audience's high level of discussion and engagement. To continue the discussion on the relationship between housing and land markets in Ukraine, we plan to prepare a report and share its findings with you very soon.

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The video recording in English is available here, and the presentations here

Programme:

Registration, coffee (9:00-9:30) 

Greetings (9:30-09:45) Vadym Boychenko (Mayor of Mariupol), Iryna Matsevko (KhSA, Rector)

Introduction (9:45-10:00) Oleksandr Anisimov, Pavlo Fedoriv

The challenge (10:00-10:30) Julie Lawson, Ryan van den Nouwelant and Laurence Troy (RMIT University, UNSW, University of Sydney) – access to adequate housing in Ukraine – a needs-based assessment 

Session 1. Possible solutions to housing needs (10:30-11:45)

(Needs and data, national conditions of land use, municipalities and housing, state and housing — priorities and policies; forms of housing construction and management)

Moderated by Pavlo Fedoriv (NHP)

• Vita Shnaider, Galyna Sukhomud (New Housing Policy) — Non-profit actors in emergency housing sphere: access to land and management of IDP housing
• Olena Lukaniuk (IOM) — Overcoming barriers to affordable housing in local areas. What reforms are needed and what is possible now? 
• Wolfgang Amann (IIBW) — Common good housing approach: delivering systemic change for sustainable public housing in municipalities in Ukraine

Coffee-break 

Session 2. Do we have land for future housing development? How do we assess it? (12:00-13:15)

(Sectoral limitations and challenges, market of land; energy transition, natural landscapes and agriculture - search for balance; war related land loss and conservation; taxation and assessment towards sustainable use)

Moderated by Oleksandr Anisimov (NHP)

• Anna Akermann, Maria Diachuk (Ecoaction) – Establishing national and local evidence for the land loss and approaches to local land use after the war
• Olexiy Burkovskiy () – National land policy in light of the challenges for the future recovery, data on the land-use and finance in the agriculture sector
• Edwin Buitelaar (PBL, Utrecht University) — Managing sustainable urban development. The case of balancing active and facilitative land policy in the Netherlands

Lunch

Session 3. Land-use tools and policies for recovery (14:30 - 15:45)

(inclusive zoning, building contracts and agreements; long-term land lease, land banking; land-use planning; land balance; models of land ownership - forms in Ukraine; infrastructure and land for the future — planning tools for recovery and development)

Moderated by Pavlo Fedoriv (NHP)

• Oleksandr Anisimov (Aalto University, KhSA, NHP) – Tools for land-use and land development, integration for local land-use
• Yehor Vlasenko (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) – Spatial and regional planning, penetrating rural/urban dimensions in Ukrainian communities
• Andriy Martyn (NUBiP) — developing local land use plans, tools and assessments – experience and challenges in Ukraine

Coffee-break

Keynote – the Perspective (16:00-17:00) Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford) — How can the post-war reconstruction jumpstart Ukraine’s economy? 

Discussion Panel: How to inform the national reforms in housing and land for green recovery? (17:00-18:30) 

(Supply or demand approach? Planning of reforms in light of the priorities, international agenda and Ukraine Plan, expected strategic investment and local capacity, role of civil society and expert circles)

Moderated by Ivan Verbytskyi (CEDOS)

• Anatoly Tkachuk (CSI)
• Serhiy Komnatnyi (UNECE)
• Paul Scott Prettitore (World Bank)
• Serhii Maruschenko (COE)
• Alina Moskalenko (NRC)

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