STABLE FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES: THE MAIN MECHANISMS, PRINCIPLES AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

We analyze the influence of the annual increase in tariff rates for housing services and utilities on the financial condition of enterprises of this sector of the economy, the renovation of their main funds and communal infrastructure; the necessity of works aimed at the renovation and modernization of the main funds of the objects of the communal infrastructure is motivated. It is shown how big the need for a strategy of a stable functioning and development of the industry is, the need for the development of the main principles and evaluation criteria of its implementation, indicators of the level of the achievement of the desired goal and directions of perfection of the state regulation of housing services and utilities with the strengthening of regulatory functions. A special attention is paid to the development of the investment strategy of public utilities and to the change of the adjustmentmechanism of current tariff rates