Housing and communal services as a driver of the Urals Federal District sustainable development

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the current state of the housing and communal services market in the Ural Federal District. The features of the housing and communal services market in the Urals Federal District have been investigated, key trends in the development of the studied market have been identified. The assessment of the volume of the housing and communal services market in the Urals Federal District in value terms is carried out, its dynamics in 2015-2020 is presented. The nature of the investigated market volume dynamics is revealed, the average annual rate of its growth and the drivers of market growth are determined. The structure of housing and communal services and the structure of the housing stock in the Ural Federal District within the regions and districts are considered. The heterogeneity of these structures is shown. A significant share (about 66.0%) in both structures presented falls on Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. The study is based on statistical data from the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation, data from specialized portals (Unified information resource - GIS Housing and Communal Services, State Corporation - Fund for Assistance to Reforming Housing and Utilities Sector (Housing and Utilities Fund)). The results obtained in this work helps further research to conduct a competitive analysis on the housing and communal services market in the Urals Federal District, determine the shares of the largest competitors in the studied market, estimate the volume of housing and communal services consumption per capita, as well as the saturation and estimated potential of the housing and communal services market in the Urals Federal District.

Concepts of sustainable development in ecological and economic systems

“…Generally, the categories of balance and responsibility for thinking and acting can function as moral principles on the way to sustainable development [9]. The aim to harmonize social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability concerns the balancing practices that include the cooperation of businesses, government, science and local communities.…”