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Title

Implementing housing allowances in Russia : rationalizing the rental sector / Raymond J. Struyk [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by University Press of America, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Struyk, Raymond J.

Description

xi, 164 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Urban Institute report, 0897-7399 ; 93-1

Uniform Title

Urban Institute report ; 93-1.

Subject

• Rent subsidies > Moscow
• Rental housing > Moscow

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-164).

Contents

• Abstract -- 1. Housing Reform in Russia: Barriers and Opportunities. The Current Housing Sector in Russia. Housing Reform Today: Privatization Policies. Prospects for Reform of State and Municipal Housing: State or Market Regulation of Rents. The Housing Allowance Program in the Context of Overall Housing Reform. Rental Housing. Privatization. New Construction. Allocation of Newly Constructed Units. Characteristics of the Housing System of the Future -- 2. How Housing Allowances Work. Objectives of a Housing Allowance Program. The Mechanics of Housing Allowances. Participation. Subsidy Payments. Incentives for Participants. Implementation Issues. Program Administration. Phasing in the System. Technical Problems. Measuring Household Incomes. Household Size. Setting the Maximum Social Rents -- 3. Housing Expenditures and Incomes in Moscow - March 1992. The Data. Housing Expenditures and Incomes -- 4. Structure of the Simulations. Common Assumptions. Key Parameters. Rent Increases. t Values.
• Maximum Social Rent - MSR. Y*. Other Adjustments. t-Value Adjustment for Lower Quality Housing. Shift in Tenure Choice. Increased Unemployment between 1992 and 1994 -- 5. Eligibility and Housing Costs: Results of Implementing Housing Allowances. Findings for Year One. Who Receives Housing Allowance Benefits? Housing Payments and Subsidies. Housing Revenues and Subsidy Costs under the Housing Allowance. Findings for Year Three. Main Results. Impact of Unemployment. Impact of Further Privatization. Conclusions of the Results of Implementing Housing Allowances -- 6. Russia's Housing Allowance in International Perspective. Housing Allowances in East and West: Different Points of Origin. Results of Hungary and Moscow. Results for Year One. Year Three Results -- Appendix A: The Russian Household Income and Expenditure Survey.

ISBN

• 087766594X (case : alk. paper)
• 0877665958 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

92042050

OCLC

• 27106181
• ocm27106181

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries