State programs on provision of population with affordable and comfortable housing: an issue of efficient implementation

Abstract

the paper deals with the issue of state-supported provision of the population with affordable and comfortable housing. Over the last decade the organizational and economic mechanism of state participation in solving social problems involves mainly development, approval and implementation of various state programs. In the present paper, evolution of the state programs in the field of affordable housing adopted since 1991 is discussed in detail. The goals and objectives of the programs, target indicators and their changes over time, and the possibility of their attaining are critically analyzed. The authors have tried to find ways to assess the efficiency of the state programs implementation from the point of view of those for whom they are devoted to, i.e. citizens who need to improve their living conditions. Some indicators for assessing the dynamics of changes in the number of households that are in need of housing and meeting the requirement of the programs are calculated. The analysis shows that the state programs are of low efficiency for those whose housing problems should be solved. The applied methods for evaluating the efficiency of state programs exist “per se”, and for the management they are considered as quite satisfactory. However, in the Irkutsk region, the effectiveness of housing state programs in accordance with the applied methodology for 2015-2017 is only 70-80%. Recommendations for improving the efficiency of state programs should be made in two directions: (i) improvement of the budget planning of the region and (ii) improvement of the target indicators of the programs.