Ukraine: Promotional programme for municipalities // NRW.BANK promotes accommodation for refugees

16 May 2022

More and more people from Ukraine are leaving their home country because of the war. NRW.BANK has therefore relaunched its “NRW.BANK.Flüchtlingsunterkünfte” promotional programme for refugee accommodation. Since April 14, municipalities have been able to use this programme for the interest-free financing of initial accommodation for refugees.


The refugees from Ukraine are in great need, and so is the willingness to help in North Rhine-Westphalia. "Many people are leaving their homes and the municipalities have to react quickly so that they can accommodate the refugees," says Eckhard Forst, Chairman of the Managing Board at NRW.BANK. "We support them in this with a programme we developed in 2015/2016 for arriving refugees and have now been able to make available again from scratch."

Build new accommodation, convert or extend existing accommodation

Through its Refugee Accommodation programme, NRW.BANK generally supports the cities, municipalities and districts in the state in all investments in the acquisition and construction (including lightweight construction) as well as in the modernisation and equipping of refugee accommodation. Several municipalities in NRW are currently faced with the task of either constructing new buildings or adapting existing refugee accommodation to the needs of women and children, i.e. converting or expanding it.

Later use of buildings for communal or social purposes

200 million euros are available for each of the years 2022 and 2023. The maximum loan amount is ten million euros per year per applicant, with terms of 10 and 20 years. If there is no longer a need to use the buildings as refugee accommodation, they can continue to be used for municipal and social purposes.

With the Refugee Accommodation programme, the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia supported municipalities in the years 2015-2017 in creating facilities for initial accommodation for the refugees at that time - predominantly young men from Syria. After the need at the time ceased to exist, the programme was discontinued in mid-2017.

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