What is reform? Once again a few words about Housing

It seems that no one has ever asked the question of what reforms are like in the mid-1990s. In recent years, 15 this concept itself has lost the usual sound of "radical transformations" and has become consonant with the expectation of empty changes. If something is changing, then somewhere up there, at the top, while at the grassroots level no changes occur. And instead of fundamental changes people feel the complication of life and a waste of time.

Now we need to look for new answers to the old question of what reforms are. At the forefront are transformations in the medical sphere, in the field of social and pensions. However, the most urgent problem remains reform of housing and utilities. It's not a secret that pipes, water supply, sewerage, electricity, in a word, utilities in general have remained unchanged since the Soviet times. Communications have not been repaired for several decades, more than 80% are not only physically, but also morally obsolete. Just as the post-Soviet form of government that is still in force is obsolete, it is essentially inefficient and does not meet the requirements of the times. Paradox: HCS remains the only industry in the Russian economy where small islets of private capital feel very uncomfortable in the ocean of monopoly-state pressure on any initiatives to change the situation for the better.

By the way, about the changes. The answer to the question of what reforms are, is simple enough. These are changes in the "rules of the game" on someone else's field, which lead to fundamental changes. For example, the reform of education, which involves the transfer of educational autonomy to universities. That is, it's not about solving current financial problems, finding funds for upgrading utilities or building new modern neighborhoods. At least because it's impossible. Only according to official data, annually the population pays for untold services 1,3 trillion. Rubles. And for the initial repair required 9 trillion. According to this logic, it turns out that the cost of utility services should grow by 9 times! And the construction of new homes instead of "Khrushchev" will require almost 25 years of time. So, new buildings will grow old, not having time to "be born". Not to mention what to do during these 25 years, besides not in big cities. Russia, to the bureaucratic regret, is a big country ...

As a result, the answer to the question of what reforms are, lies in a slightly different plane. This is a requirement of state-guaranteed private property rights and demonopolization of the entire communal economy. The government, judging by the recent decision of the State Council, nevertheless intends to demonopolize the management of the communal economy, transferring almost all communications to the hands of private concessionaires. However, management is not property. Moreover, ownership of the land on which these communications are laid. And it turns out that instead of one state monopoly two are born: bureaucratic and private. With different functional and market filling. And to keep in these conditions, the rise in prices for the same utility services is not possible.

In addition, there is one more problem. Nobody, probably, already especially does not argue, whether it is necessary TSZH or not. Law is law. Another thing, how to be, if the HOA does not belong to the whole complex of communications, home territory and land on which the houses that are part of it are located. Without these key elements of meaning, there is no partnership. It is obvious that the reform of the housing and communal services is dragging along with the land reform, and the reform of the ATU and the budget system. And this is a radical change ...