People move with their money and their needs
Money follows people (or rather, with people) who move to certain regions of Ukraine. However, their needs also move with people. As a result, traffic in cities increases, demand for housing and communal services increases significantly, etc.
So, building new neighborhoods is great, but it is necessary to take into account the same state of housing and communal services in cities (with a significant increase in the number of forced new residents and the specifics of individual cities, such as Kyiv). Without such consideration, various failures are quite likely.
President of the National Expert Construction Alliance of Ukraine VIKTOR LESCHYNSKY:
– It is quite difficult to develop a business and carry out construction during the war. I am not a military expert, but now there is a situation when everyone says that Kyiv is the most protected city in Ukraine. Again, Kyiv is a very large city and the needs of a person in the capital are greater than in other cities of the country. We are talking about traffic, the location of the residence and its distance from the destination points, the path itself and the duration of the “home-work” route, etc. That is, there are nuances that do not allow, let’s say, to live cheaply.
People are currently moving around Ukraine, and with them, in the process, sources of funding are moving. Starting from beauty salons and hairdressers, ending with people’s needs to purchase certain property and so on. That is, where people flow, their needs flow, including the needs of the construction sector.
I can say that those cities where the implementation of new neighborhoods is planned also have certain problematic issues. That is, there are investments, there is a perspective, there is even a modern approach to the implementation of good projects, but there are problems that cannot be hidden or silenced.
I will give a specific example. The problem with the condition of sewer collectors has not disappeared anywhere. Almost all of them, in most cases in Ukraine, as they say, “breathe on incense”. And there are almost 80% of them. So, we are increasing the capacity of neighborhoods in cities, but the load on certain critical infrastructure facilities is also significantly increasing. And with the lack of funding for a long time for major repairs and reconstruction of such facilities, their capacity decreases and the impact on their safety margin (which has already expired long ago) becomes even greater. And then there is the load from new neighborhoods. So, as we can see, the situation is not simple.
