Policy seminar «Housing policy and solving poverty problems» by Liudmyla Cherenko

Description

The unsolved housing problem became a sign of the Soviet era. Since the beginning of the 90s, the population has declined, housing stock has gradually increased, consequently, the average housing stock has grown. At the same time, quantitative and qualitative characteristics of living conditions improved too slowly. Every second household today is overpopulated (among urban families with children the overpopulation rate exceeds 80%), and every fifth does not have elementary comfort conditions.

Chronic deficit of state resources and lack of own funds for improvement of housing in the majority of the population does not inspire about solving problems in the nearest future. Can existing constraints accelerate the development of housing conditions? Which components should include housing policy? What should be the basis for choosing policy priorities? What traditional and non-standard approaches are advisable to apply?

Speaker:

Lyudmyla Cherenko, Ph.D., Head of the Livestock Survey of the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.