The total area of residential buildings for which construction permits have been issued (new construction) in January-June 2022 decreased by 1.8 times compared to the same period in 2021, to 2.5 million square meters. m, according to the State Statistics Service.
According to the statistics agency, in the first half of the year the total area of new construction of apartment buildings amounted to 2 million 427.9 thousand square meters. m (97% of the total volume). The number of apartments in apartment buildings declared at the start of construction amounted to 32.8 thousand.
In Kyiv, over the specified period, the total area of new housing construction decreased by 2/3 by January-June 2021 – to 202 thousand square meters. m, while in the Kyiv region increased by 12.2% – up to 502.6 thousand square meters. m.
A significant volume of new housing construction was also recorded in Lviv (449.9 thousand sq. m.), Kharkiv (213.4 thousand sq. m.), Khmelnitsky (182.3 thousand sq. m.), Odessa (151.7 thousand m), Ternopil (120.2 thousand sq. m), Rivne (117.2 thousand sq. m) and Volyn (109.5 thousand sq. m) regions.
The State Statistics Service recalls that the figures are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as parts of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The construction of bomb shelters in new housing can be regulated at the legislative level, said Elena Shulyak, leader of the Servant of the People party.
“Will there be new buildings with bomb shelters? We plan to resolve this issue at the legislative level, with prescribed norms and rules. I’m sure this should become one of the requirements of users of such housing and premises,” the people’s deputy wrote on Facebook.
According to Shulyak, the role of bomb shelters can also be performed by specially designed fortified underground parking lots.
The People’s Deputy recalled that the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading bill No. 7198, which provides for the restoration of housing destroyed by the occupiers at the expense of the state.
As reported, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky supported the idea of introducing a rule on mandatory shelters into state building codes.
