Pilipenko, Igor V. (2023). Structural Specificities of the Housing Stock in the 15 Republics of the USSR by Main Ownership Type. Ekonomika i Upravlenie: Problemy, Resheniya (Economy and Governance: Problems, Solutions) (ISSN 2308-927X), July, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 30–65. (in Russian).

Abstract

The article considers the structure and dynamics of the housing stock in the 15 Republics of the USSR, subdivided by geographical location into five macroregions, based on a dataset compiled by the author from more than 120 statistical yearbooks of the USSR and the Union Republics. Employing such indicators as housing stock total floor space in urban settlements from 1960 to 1990, in rural areas and in the Republics overall from 1980 to 1990, we analysed the evolution of the ratio of the socialised housing stock, which included the state and public housing stock as well as the housing cooperatives’ stock, and the individually-owned housing stock that until recently has been often overlooked in the contemporary Russian-language literature devoted to the housing sector of the USSR. The article reveals that in nine out of 15 Union Republics the individually-owned housing stock prevailed by total floor space during the 1980s. And taking into account the housing stock of housing construction cooperatives, construction of 30 per cent of the housing stock of the RSFSR to 74 per cent of the housing stock in the Georgian SSR by the year of 1990 was financed by the population. The ratio of the socialised housing stock and the individually-owned one was affected by the proportion between the urban and rural housing stock, which, in turn, was determined by the level of urbanisation in the Union Republics.