Historical Genesis of Housing and Utilities as an Industry with the Special Mechanism of Economic Relations Cover Image

Історичний генезис житлово-комунального господарства як галузі з особливим механізмом економічних відносин
Historical Genesis of Housing and Utilities as an Industry with the Special Mechanism of Economic Relations

Author(s): Oleksandr Holovchenko
Subject(s): Economy, National Economy, Business Economy / Management, Micro-Economics, Accounting - Business Administration, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Кіровоградський національний технічний університет
Keywords: housing and communal services; housing services; the enterprise housing and utilities sector; sub-sector of housing and utilities

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to formulate common, unified definition of housing and utilities as an industry with the special mechanism of economic relations on the basis of generalization and analysis of the historical genesis of the industry and different scientific views on its structure and specific characteristics. We have reviewed the historical genesis of the housing and utilities as the separate industry. It was also summarized the existing scientific approaches regarding the separation of housing and utilities from other sectors of the national economics. In addition, it was researched and critically evaluated a wide range of definitions of the studied industry, formulated over the past fifty years. It was proved the inadequacy of scientific approaches for the identification of the sector of housing and utilities as: “city services”, “housing infrastructure”, “communal infrastructure”, “urban landscaping”, etc. Based on this, was presented a rational definition of housing and utilities as a separate industry with the special mechanism of economic relations