PUBLIC POLICY STRATEGIES IN HOUSING AND UTILITIES SECTOR (CONSIDERING FOREIGN EXPERIENCE)

Abstract

Aim. To identify weak points of housing and utilities management determining growing social tension in Russia and to present foreign experience of housing and utilities management with the aim of adjusting the Russian public policy in this field. Methods. The housing and utilities management systems in Russia and abroad are compared, the advantages of foreign management are reflected and the reasons why this system is regulated "manually" in our country are identified. Weak substantive aspects of the legislative documents generating social injustice among the population of the country are revealed. Results. Foreign experience of housing and utilities systems functioning and regulation in many developed countries which can serve as an example of housing and utilities system management in Russia is presented. Foreign schemes of producing, providing and payment for housing and utility services, formations of utility tariffs and the consumers’ free choice are offered to be adapted to the national conditions. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty lies in researching foreign experience of providing utilities to the population and the offer of its transferring to the Russian reality with the aim of eliminating socio-political tension in the housing and utilities sector of Russia.