Implementing Housing Allowances in Russia: Rationalising the Rental Sector: v. 93-1 (Urban Institute Report S.) - Hardcover

Struyk, Raymond J.; Kosareva, Nadezhda; Daniell, Jennifer; Hanson, Charles; Mikelsons, Maris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087766594X ISBN 13: 9780877665946

Publisher: Urban Institute Press,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

This text argues that privatisation of state and municipal housing in the Russian Federation is only one of the key elements of housing policy and that it is necessary to plan now for the future of the rental sector. It explains housing reforms to date (August 1992) and offers specific recommendations by: describing current rents and their relationship to family income; establishing the feasibility of creating a programme for increasing rents and introducing payment of housing allowances to the population (using simulations conducted for Moscow City); and analysing alternative versions of a housing allowance programme to determine their effectiveness and results. This book also puts Russia's housing allowance programme into a broader context by contrasting the circumstances in which housing allowance programmes are being introduced in Eastern Europe with conditions existing in North America and Western Europe in the 1970s, when allowances were introduced in many of those countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Urban Institute Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087766594X
• ISBN 13: 9780877665946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168