Improving the Quality of Housing and Communal Services in Ukraine

Abstract The unsatisfactory condition of the housing stock, high level of depreciation of engineering networks and equipment, inefficient management structure determine the need to modernize the sector and improve the quality of housing and communal services in Ukraine. Objective of the article is to conduct a study of the need to improve the quality of housing and communal services in Ukraine and to develop a methodological basis for the study of the quality of housing and communal services. Research Methods: application of the methodological approach to measuring the quality of housing and communal services in Ukraine using the analytical method. It was found that the housing stock and functioning communal infrastructure have significant physical and moral deterioration. Its presence has a negative impact on the quality of housing and communal services provided to the population for consumption. The most significant factors are identified and the degree of their impact on the development potential of the sphere of housing and communal services is determined. The necessity of accounting of the indicated factors at development of economical and mathematical models allowing institutional agents of housing and communal services sphere to take optimal decisions in conditions of uncertainty and stimulating them for improvement of quality of produced housing and communal services has been grounded.