Thesis for a Candidate Degree in Public Administration, specialty 25.00.02 "Mechanisms of Public Administration". - Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration, National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Lviv, 2018.
In the dissertation work the improvement of the mechanisms of state administration on the formation and implementation of the state policy in the field of provision of housing rights by citizens of Ukraine at the regional level is substantiated. The theoretical bases of the state policy in the field of providing citizens with social and affordable housing in Ukraine are researched. While defining the range of people who fall under the definition of those who use the right to primary and extraordinary housing, it became necessary to formulate the term "selected preferential categories of citizens." The differentiation of the concepts of "affordable housing" and "social housing" as the object of public-power relations should be approved at the legislative and regulatory level with their socio-economic characteristics.
The system of realization of citizens' housing rights, which requires improvement of living conditions as a whole, as well as certain privileged categories of citizens who need improvement of living conditions in particular, has certain disadvantages, formed by paternalistic Soviet housing policy. The evolution proceeded from the complete prohibition of private property and actual full regulation by the state bodies empowered by the social sphere of life of citizens, in general, and residential issues in particular - to partial interference of state bodies and local self-government bodies with the use of a certain spectrum of state governance mechanisms to improve the living conditions of citizens.
Having summarized modern models and housing systems in foreign countries, it has been established that various mechanisms are used in economically developed countries, through which the state, through authorized bodies, can influence the development of the housing sector. One of the main principles of the formation of affordable housing in Ukraine at this stage should be the principle of minimalism - the minimum acceptable level of comfort of living, the minimum allowable volume of internal space of living space, minimal costs for the construction and operation of such housing. There is a need to improve the models of application of mechanisms of state management of realization of housing programs in Ukraine, which should satisfy the demand of the majority of the population for the purchase of this dwelling, in ownership at an affordable price; it is possible only with the proper state support through acceptable terms of mortgage lending with the involvement of the share of own funds of citizens.
The optimal structure of the formation of an effective set of mechanisms would be a combination of mechanisms of government and market self-regulation in this area. An analysis of the provision of housing for certain privileged categories of citizens, in particular, combatants and persons equated to them, participants in the war, servicemen, suggests that these categories of citizens have significant problems with the realization of their right to housing. Improving the mechanisms for the formation and implementation of state policy in the area of realization of housing rights of Ukrainian citizens should provide the establishment of stable financial flows in the form of investment in construction with the aim of increasing coordination between the pace of formation of the mortgage and real estate market. Efficiently functioning mortgage lending system, based on a differentiated approach to different categories of citizens and covering investment and construction activities, mechanisms for reliable accumulation of population funds and long-term mortgage lending in combination with targeted state support, can significantly contribute to solving the problem of housing provision for citizens.
The peculiarities of realization of state and regional housing programs are generalized and ways of improving their effectiveness are outlined. It is necessary to make significant changes in the target state programs providing housing for these categories of citizens, whose goal should be to solve the problem of providing their housing, and their families, through the proper functioning and improvement of a complex of mechanisms of public administration. The complex of mechanisms of state administration for ensuring the realization of the right of citizens to housing at the regional level with the corresponding content is proposed. This effective set of mechanisms of public administration to ensure the rights of Ukrainian citizens to housing is a combination of the four mechanisms mentioned and provides a dialogue form of relations between state authorities, the media and public institutions.
