The use of concessions for overcoming crisis and pre-emergency condition of housing-and-communal facilities

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to develop some recommendations on the improvement of housing-and-communal services financing on the basis of the mechanism of public-and-private partnership, and namely on the basis of concessionary agreements. The analysis of the housing-andmunicipal industry condition was carried out with the use of the municipal infrastructure development index. According to the analysis results, the that a considerable part of housing-and-communal facilities are in crisis or pre-emergency condition. It is fraught with technogenic accidents, damage to an environment, additional expenses on compensation of the environmental damage. Besides, the ecological costs of outdated and wornout facilities are high even without emergence of accidents. The conclusion was drawn that development, repair and replacement of worn-out objects of housing-and-communal infrastructure are necessary. In turn, additional financing of the sphere is necessary for this purpose. The experience of the concessionary agreements implementation in the Russian regions is considered. The conclusion is drawn that this experience positive in general, but the mechanism also has some shortcomings, some problems of the legislative regulation exist. Further distribution of concessions demands purposeful measures. The corresponding recommendations, developed by the author of the article, can be useful for regional and municipal authorities as well as for specialists of the companies, working in the field of housing-and-public services.