{"id":2833,"date":"2026-05-29T03:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svaroglaw.com\/advokat-z-zhytlovyh-pytan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:45:33","slug":"advokat-z-zhytlovyh-pytan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/svaroglaw.com\/en\/advokat-z-zhytlovyh-pytan\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 15 February 2026 the Law \u201cOn the Fundamentals of Housing Policy\u201d (No. 4751-IX) came into force, repealing the 1983 Housing Code of the Ukrainian SSR<\/strong> \u2014 the statute Ukrainians lived under for more than forty years.<\/p>\n

The rules on occupying housing, eviction, service accommodation and, above all, free privatisation<\/strong> are now set by the new law. Some provisions of the old Code remain in force for the transitional period set by its Chapter IV, so in every dispute one has to check which version of the rules applies to the situation.<\/p>\n

A housing lawyer is needed right now: rights that seemed open-ended now have an end date, and some disputes are already decided under the new rules.<\/p>\n

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What changed on 15 February 2026<\/h2>\n
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Free privatisation now has an end date<\/h3>

Chapter IV of Law No. 4751-IX provides that the right to have housing transferred into ownership free of charge ends one year after martial law ends or is lifted. The date is not yet fixed, because it depends on when martial law is lifted, but the opportunity is now time-limited, and there is no sense in delaying the paperwork.<\/p><\/div><\/article>

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The Housing Code of the Ukrainian SSR has lapsed<\/h3>

Apart from particular provisions that apply during the transitional period. In practice that means claims and defences now cite the new law and the Civil Code rather than the familiar articles of the Housing Code \u2014 and the courts are still working out how to apply them.<\/p><\/div><\/article>

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Disputes begun before 15 February 2026<\/h3>

Do not disappear: relations that arose earlier are governed by the rules in force when they arose. So the dates of the events in your case matter as much as what happened.<\/p><\/div><\/article><\/div>\n

Areas of work<\/h2>\n

The right to housing<\/h3>\n