New assessment highlights homeowners’ associations’ role in Ukraine’s housing recovery

Home­own­ers’ asso­ci­a­tions (HOAs) con­tin­ue to pro­vide a foun­da­tion for res­i­den­tial recov­ery and ener­gy resilience in Ukraine despite the dis­rup­tion caused by Russia’s full-scale inva­sion. A new study pub­lished by the GIZ project “ReBuild Green Ukraine with the Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Fund” exam­ines how col­lec­tive hous­ing man­age­ment in mul­ti-apart­ment build­ings (MABs) devel­oped dur­ing 2021–2025 and what sup­port res­i­dents need to sus­tain it.

The study, Dynam­ics of HOA cre­ation in Ukraine in 2021–2025, uses offi­cial data pro­vid­ed by the Min­istry for Com­mu­ni­ties and Ter­ri­to­ries Devel­op­ment of Ukraine. The Min­istry con­sol­i­dates infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted by region­al admin­is­tra­tions, draw­ing on munic­i­pal records. GIZ, with a group of region­al advi­sors, analysed the data and inter­pret­ed trends using long-term field expe­ri­ence of sup­port­ing HOAs across Ukraine.

By 2025, HOAs man­aged 37,857 mul­ti-apart­ment build­ings (MABs), account­ing for 22.2% of the report­ed hous­ing stock, com­pared with 20.7% in 2021. The nation­al total increased by 635 build­ings in 2025, fol­low­ing declines in 2023 and 2024.

Along­side the bar­ri­ers cre­at­ed by the war, the analy­sis iden­ti­fies new rea­sons for res­i­dents to organ­ise col­lec­tive­ly. HOAs help res­i­dents access recon­struc­tion assis­tance and coor­di­nate invest­ments in ener­gy secu­ri­ty, includ­ing build­ing insu­la­tion and automa­tion, back­up pow­er and solar sys­tems. Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Fund pro­grammes are an impor­tant incen­tive: Ener­goDIM sup­ports ener­gy mod­erni­sa­tion, while Vid­novy­DIM helps asso­ci­a­tions repair war-dam­aged MABs.

The find­ings point to sub­stan­tial poten­tial for fur­ther HOA devel­op­ment. Turn­ing this poten­tial into effec­tive build­ing man­age­ment requires acces­si­ble financ­ing, prac­ti­cal tech­ni­cal advice, local gov­ern­ment sup­port and oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn from suc­cess­ful asso­ci­a­tions. These mea­sures can help res­i­dents pre­pare ren­o­va­tion projects and strength­en the foun­da­tions for ener­gy-effi­cient, resilient hous­ing.

Learn more from the pre­sen­ta­tion Dynam­ics of HOA cre­ation in Ukraine in 2021–2025:

The project “ReBuild­Green Ukraine with the Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Fund” is fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union and the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty (BMUKN) under the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI) and imple­ment­ed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH.