Your accommodation must be situated in the Brussels Capital Region and must be available for at least 15 days. You can offer an entire dwelling or make part of your dwelling available. Any type of building is accepted: it can be a house or an office building redesigned for housing. It must be accessible at all times to the person or people accommodated during the accommodation period.

Your dwelling must be safe and healthy: in a structurally stable building, not affected by permanent humidity or parasites, with windows offering natural light in the living rooms, ventilated, equipped with functional and safe electrical wiring and heating.

The access to sanitary installations must include at least one toilet, a washbasin and a bath/shower (with hot water).

It must also be possible to lock the room with a key, so as to ensure privacy.

Your accommodation will not be formally inspected. However, the person or people you host will have to be domiciled on the address of the accommodation you offer, and a neighbourhood police officer or an official authorised by the municipal government will verify the domiciliation on the spot. During their visit, they will check whether or not the accommodation offered is safe, healthy and adapted to the guest(s).

The platform www.bemyguest.brussels registers accommodation offers that are available for at least 15 days and at most 18 months. The accommodation period cannot exceed the validity period of the temporary protection status granted to displaced people coming from Ukraine (which is currently until 4 March 2023).

The procedure to end your accommodation offer is explained below.

By the day the guest(s) move in at the latest, you must have taken out a fire insurance for the entire occupied dwelling as well as a home insurance for the furniture, if you make any available. 

Please contact your fire insurance and liability insurance company to inform them of the temporary accommodation. Some companies will agree to extend the coverage of the insurances to the temporary protection beneficiaries without this requiring any modification or supplement. If this is refused, the guest(s) will have to take out separate insurances.

The guest(s) must also take out a fire insurance at their own expense so as to cover their liability.
The municipal PCSWs offer insurances at a reduced rate.

If the offered accommodation is situated in part of your main dwelling, we will ask for your consent so that the municipal authorities can verify only your personal criminal record (those of your family members will not be consulted). If you do not consent to this, this verification cannot take place and consequently, your accommodation offer cannot be approved.

You also have to commit to ending your accommodation offer and alerting the municipal administration if you can no longer certify that none of the adult members of your household living at the accommodation address has a criminal record.

The municipal administrations and the local public centres for social welfare (PCSWs) will use the platform www.bemyguest.brussels to offer a place to stay to people coming from Ukraine who have obtained temporary protection. The municipal officials and the PCSWs will attempt to match the profiles of the guest(s) optimally with your offer and any specific demands you might have. For instance, they will take into account the capacity of your dwelling and your wish (or refusal) to host children or people with reduced mobility. 

Therefore, you will not be able to make the selection, but the municipal administration or the PCSW will notify you of the guest's/guest's profile(s) before they move in, and you can revoke the accommodation offer at any time if there is a problem (see below).

The displaced people coming from Ukraine and looking for housing cannot access the regional database directly either. Only municipal and PCSW officials, as well as the Brussels Housing officials, can consult the offers registered on www.bemyguest.brussels.

So as to be able to receive social benefits and to facilitate their administrative procedures, the temporary protection beneficiaries coming from Ukraine must have a legal registered address situated in Belgium. The guest(s) must therefore be domiciled at the address of the accommodation. Their domicile address will match the address of their temporary accommodation location, but their residential address will remain that of their principal residence in Ukraine.

So as to maintain your social rights, the municipal administration will register the guest(s) with a specific "temporary protection" housing code, which makes it possible to separate them from your household during the accommodation period. Both households will therefore be registered at the same address separately, and your financial situation (child benefit, unemployment benefit, etc.) will not change.

We do not expect any specific personal commitment. We will only ask you to make sure you update your offer on the platform www.bemyguest.brussels if you wish to temporarily pause it (when you are on vacation, for instance) or to revoke it once and for all.