Ukraine seeks housing solutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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A Ukrainian delegation visited Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to learn from the country’s experience housing displaced people.
Following stops in Tuzla and Prača, the group met with officials from the Goražde municipality to discuss strategies for addressing Ukraine’s significant housing crisis. Ukraine currently has six million internally displaced people, including three million whose homes have been destroyed, with 77,000 currently sheltered in 1,500 collective centers.
The Bosnian representatives shared the legal framework and models for social and non-profit housing they used after the war, detailing the process from strategy development and land acquisition to construction. They currently have 268 housing units available for displaced people and shared both successful and unsuccessful aspects of their projects with the Ukrainian delegates. Goražde’s mayor, Ernest Imamović, noted that housing displaced people in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a decades-long process.
He explained that completing this process within five years of conflict is ideal, rather than continuing for many years after. Representatives from CRS BiH emphasized the importance of developing strategies and planning various housing solutions alongside the rebuilding of destroyed properties to facilitate a swift and effective return for displaced people.
