The dissertation is a completed research work that presents solving an urgent scientific problem – scientific justification of a set of innovative approaches and tools for public administration of the development of housing and communal services in Ukrainian cities and development of methodological and technological support for its efficient and effective functioning.
It is shown that during the almost thirty years of Ukraine's independence, the state of communal infrastructure and the level of providing housing and communal services has always been unsatisfactory. A high level of corruption, underdeveloped market mechanisms for providing services, bureaucracy, the unsatisfactory technical state of fixed assets, insufficient investment in energy-efficient technologies and energy-saving systems, as well as many other factors led to a steady trend of deterioration in the financial and economic performance of housing and communal companies, which as a result led to a deep systemic crisis of the housing complex on the eve of full-scale aggression by the russian federation. The war has further exacerbated the situation in this area. The severity and scale of the problems are obvious – Ukraine's housing and communal sector urgently needs to implement a powerful set of measures to ensure an adequate level of protection and maintenance of infrastructure and the provision of quality housing and communal services, and this problem has virtually no time to be resolved or postponed.
The state of scientific study of the problem is analysed, as a result of which the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the subject area of research is improved, in particular: the author's (expanded) vision of the concept of "housing and communal services" is formulated: it is an integral part of the economic complex of the territory of a certain level (village, town, city, district, region or country as a whole), which is a set of diverse tangible and intangible objects (organisations, enterprises, services, departments of various forms of ownership; administrative, residential, warehouse and other buildings and premises; engineering, technical, communication, transport networks and facilities; management systems for the production and provision of housing and communal services, their financial support) and resources (natural, human, material, technical, etc.) available in this territory and intended to meet the daily housing,
communal, household and other needs of its residents (consumers of the services provided).
