No money for rent? How Ukrainian refugees can find free housing

The war against the Ukrainian people forced many to leave their homes and leave the hot spot, and some even lost their homes due to shelling.

“Today” tells where and how you can find free housing if you do not have money to rent.

Housing in Ukraine

If you have moved from one region to another, for example, to Western Ukraine, where a large number of immigrants from the East have gone, you can contact local TSNAPswho register IDPs and deal with providing them with everything necessary.

You can also find a temporary home for yourself by using the special chat bot of the Care Center – @turbotnyk_bot.

With the help of this bot, you can find temporary housing in 14 regions of Ukraine. To do this, select the area that suits you from the list and a consultant will contact you to select housing options.

You can also contact the Dopomogay initiative at 0 (800) 332 238. They offer Ukrainians free housing in safe areas of the country or abroad.

Accommodation abroad

Many foreigners are ready to shelter Ukrainians not just in their own country, but even in your own home.

In order to find these volunteers with the Shelter for Ukraine service, where 2,200 foreigners have already declared their readiness to accept more than 4,000 Ukrainians

You can also use an interesting site United for Ukraine, which provides all the necessary information for refugees arriving in EU countries, so free accommodation can be found here.

Another way to connect refugees and Europeanswho are ready to host them is the EU4UA platform. To do this, you will need to register on the site using your email or Google account.

The most popular among Ukrainians was the neighboring Polandso you can find an option for free housing on the Ukraine support website.

Ukrainian volunteers have collected all the contacts to search for temporary housing on the Coordination website.

Housing options can also be found in other countries such as Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Czech Republic and Cyprus. To do this, search among the resources collected by UkrHelp volunteers.

Rental price in Western Ukraine

Despite the fact that many Ukrainians are even ready to host refugees for free, some people try to cash in on someone else’s grief.

Thus, the cost of renting various types of housing in the western regions has increased several times. For example, for a two-room apartment in Ivano-Frankivsk, they ask more than 35 thousand UAH. per month.

Segodnya also wrote how foreigners help Ukrainian businesses and told how to keep funds in war conditions.