QUALITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF MEASURES OF SOCIAL SUPPORT PROVISION ON THE PAYMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES AT LOCAL LEVEL

Abstract

Subject: quality and availability of social support on payment for housing and communal services in the municipality "City of Ekaterinburg." Purpose: to assess the quality and availability of social support to pay for housing and communal services in the city of Yekaterinburg and develop proposals to improve their. Methodology and Methods: the research methodology is based on the principles of the activity approach to the study of social support. The study used methods such as description, analysis, synthesis, analysis of documents, sociological questionnaire. Results: assessed the quality and availability of social support measures (for example, reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and utilities) in the city of Yekaterinburg, which resulted in the study of the experience of reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and communal services in the city of Yekaterinburg; analyzed the results of independent research of the quality and availability of reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and communal services in the city of Yekaterinburg; identified gaps in the provision of compensation for the payment of housing and communal services; recommendations on improvement of the said compensation in Yekaterinburg are given. Field of application results: results of the study can be used in the activity of local governments that provide specified compensation, as well as activities of public authorities involved in the development of the order of reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and communal services. Scientific novelty: developed criteria for assessing the quality of the availability of social support (for example, reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and utilities); identified the problem of providing reimbursement of expenses to pay for housing and communal services; proposed the original judgment on the provision of compensation for the payment of housing and communal services in the city of Yekaterinburg.