Housing and utility services: specific properties and economic essence

The choice of the topic of this work is determined by the high social importance and importance of the sphere of housing and communal services for the development of the domestic economy in the face of sanctions restrictions. As a subject of research, a modern complex of housing and communal services, provided to owners and tenants of housing by economic entities in the sphere of housing and communal services, was chosen. The main purpose of this work was to substantiate the economic essence of housing and communal services in relation to the activities of economic entities in the sphere of housing and communal services, aimed at providing them to owners and tenants of housing. The methodology of the work was based on an analysis of the main provisions of the current regulatory and legislative documents, as well as a systematic analysis of the general and specific properties of housing and communal services. During the research a number of scientifically significant results were obtained, namely: importance and significance of the sphere of housing and communal services at the present stage of the development of the Russian economy have been determined; brief analysis of the changes in the current procedure for providing housing and communal services to owners and tenants of housing; revealed fundamental differences between the general and specific properties of housing and communal services; substantiated the economic essence of housing and communal services, which is associated with their provision to owners and tenants of housing by economic entities in the sphere of housing and communal services. The obtained results can be used in the activities of economic entities in the sphere of housing and communal services, directly related to the provision of a complex of housing and communal services to owners and tenants of housing. The rationale for the economic essence of housing and communal services will allow economic entities in the sphere of housing and communal services to improve the quality of their provision to end users after comprehensive modernization and introduction of innovative technologies for managing the infrastructure of this sphere.