Ukraine's eRecovery lets people file war damage claims from a phone, and assisted offline channels mean you don't need to own one. That removes a real barrier.
What it can't remove: the property registry underneath is about 40% complete. That's the load-bearing layer, the one that decides whether your house is legible to the state at all. A perfect interface still can't classify a building nobody recorded.
Bowker, Star, and Scott map this well. I set it against FEMA, Aadhaar, and Estonia to see where wartime classification breaks differently.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/the-sorting-machine-wartime-edition
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