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Factsheet for measure EE-2022-10/2299 – measures in Estonia
Country | Estonia , applies nationwide |
Time period | Open ended, started on 05 March 2022 |
Context | War in Ukraine |
Type | Other initiatives or policies |
Category |
Measures to prevent social hardship
– Keeping or obtaining a safe home |
Author | Ingel Kadarik (Praxis Center for Policy Studies) and Eurofound |
Measure added | 17 May 2022 (updated 20 June 2022) |
The state provides free initial accommodation to Ukrainian refugees for 30 days after their arrival. After that, people must find a more permanent accommodation. For this, private as well as legal persons have offered hundreds of options for the refugees. To ease the mediation of the information, the Estonian Refugee Council and the Social Insurance Board have established suitable databases.
The Estonian Refugee Council started receiving information about available accommodation options for the refugees from natural and legal persons since the beginning of March. They have gathered the information into a database and volunteers mediate the contacts of the persons in need of an accommodation and those providing it. When mediating free or low-cost dwellings, they prioritise families with small children where family members might have difficulties to work in the near future. They also shared the information with local governments so the social workers can also share the information.
In addition, on 6 April 2022 a real estate portal was opened in cooperation of the Estonian Social Insurance Board and a real estate portal provider. Anyone can submit their accommodation offer in the portal and the text is automatically translated from Estonian to Russian. It is meant for the refugees to independently search for the most suitable offer. The portal contains free as well as paid accommodation options.
The Estonian Refugee Council and other parties will still continue to mediate offers and help the refugees if needed.
By 2 May 2022, the Estonian Refugee Council had around 3,000 accommodation options in their database and they had mediated 856 dwellings for Ukrainian households. The real estate portal contains on 17 May altogether 140 offers all over Estonia.
Workers | Businesses | Citizens |
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Does not apply to workers | Does not apply to businesses |
Migrants or refugees
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Actors | Funding |
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Company / Companies
Other social actors (e.g. NGOs) Public support service providers |
Other
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Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:
Trade unions | Employers' organisations | |
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Role | No involvement as case not in social partner domain | No involvement as case not in social partner domain |
Form | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
No involvement.
Not available.
Citation
Eurofound (2022), New portals to provide long-term accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, measure EE-2022-10/2299 (measures in Estonia), EU PolicyWatch, Dublin, https://static.eurofound.europa.eu/covid19db/cases/EE-2022-10_2299.html
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