Buhaichuk N. Development of housing and communal infrastructure as a factor in ensuring of the state economic security

A thesis on the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences in Specialty 21.04.01 – Economic Security of the State (Economic Sciences). – National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kyiv, 2020. The dissertation provides theoretical substantiation and proposes the solution to a scientific problem, which consists in the development of conceptual, methodological and applied tools for developing housing and communal infrastructure, taking into account the threats and opportunities of the economic security system of the state. It has been found out that ensuring economic security is based on achieving such a level of socio-economic development that will contribute to the successful combat against external and internal threats and to the ability of the state to meet the needs of all members of society, improving the quality of life of the population. The essential and typological characteristics of social infrastructure in accordance with the directions of the social vector of economic security of the state have been determined. Functional and structural characteristics of housing and communal infrastructure in the system of economic security of the state have been deepened through scientific substantiation of functional and structural decomposition of housing and communal infrastructure as a triad of components: 1) housing stock provision – systems of interconnected elements that characterise the level of providing the population with living conditions; 2) the equipment of housing stock – integration indicators of the quality of living conditions of the population; 3) the improvement of adjacent territories – an innovative complex of components of comfortable living conditions of the population. The analytical one allows analysing the current state of housing and communal infrastructure and determining the conditions for its development in order to ensure economic security of the state and the applied component is based on the development of recommendations for ensuring the proper level of economic security through creating conditions for balanced development of housing and communal infrastructure of the state. The diagnostic assessment of threats to the functioning of housing and communal infrastructure as a factor of ensuring economic security; have carried out an integrated assessment of the security level of the territorial organisation of housing and communal infrastructure have been systematised; internal possibilities of development of housing and communal infrastructure in the system of ensuring economic security of the state using a taxonomy method have been identified. The main threats to the development of housing and communal infrastructure as a factor of ensuring economic security have been identified, including threats to health and life of the population due to a lack of quality living conditions: low rates of renovation/ modernization and reconstruction of outdated housing stock, low rates of implementing energy efficiency in housing and communal sphere, an ineffective social policy on providing housing to poor people of Ukraine, low quality of housing and communal services, a low level of digitalization of housing and communal services, a low level of infrastructure development and quality of services provided in the sphere of household waste management, the absence of effective mechanisms for combating spontaneous parking, low investment attractiveness of housing and communal infrastructure. Using the taxonomy method, the internal possibilities of development of housing and communal infrastructure in the system of ensuring economic security of the state have been identified. Carrying out a taxonomic analysis of the level of development of housing and communal infrastructure has made it possible to form the necessary measures to increase the efficiency of public administration and control in the field of housing and communal infrastructure. The relationship between the factors of development of housing and communal infrastructure and the indicators of economic security of the state using the methods of a multidimensional statistical analysis has been explored; a forecast of the level of development of housing and communal infrastructure with the aim of ensuring economic security of Ukraine has been made; strategic guidelines of the state policy on providing housing and communal infrastructure development in the system of economic security have been defined. Using a multidimensional statistical analysis, we have established a direct linear relationship between the component of the quality of life of the Ukrainian population and the development level of housing and communal infrastructure, in particular the equipment of the housing stock of Ukraine, which attests to the direct impact of the latter on economic security of Ukraine through the quality of life of the population.