Accumulated Deficiency of Housing Investments in Russia: Threats and Prospects
The author presents estimations of economic distortions in the Russian housing sector, which have become the result of the housing policy of the last 70 years. Such distortions are explained by the deficiency of investment required for supporting existing housing assets. The author suggests mechanisms for eliminating the gap between investment required and actual one. The study results allow justify the goal of the state housing policy in Russia and determine the optimal strategy for achieving this goal using available resources.
Качественные характеристики жилищного фонда Новосибирской области: тенденции изменений
The problem of improving the living standards of the population of our country is one of the central ones.The direction and rate of economic growth at present and in the future largely depend on its solution.In this regard, the importance of studies of the main groups of indicators of living standards is increasing, among which housing conditions occupy a special place. The article analyzes indicators characterizing the living conditions of the population of the Novosibirsk region from the perspective of the qualitative characteristics of the housing stock. Particular attention is paid to the substantiation of trends in their changes, which are very contradictory. In connection with what they cannot be considered unambiguously as positive or negative. Such an analysis is useful in implementing the housing policy of the region.
Do Potential People Have Moral Rights?
By a potential person I shall mean an entity which is not now a person but which is capable of developing into a person, given certain biologically and/or technologically possible conditions. This is admittedly a narrower sense than some would attach to the term ‘potential'. After all, people of the twenty-fifth century, if such there will be, are in some sense potential people now, even though the specific biological entities from which they will develop, i.e. the particular gametes or concepti, do not yet exist. For there do exist, in the reproductive capacities of people now living and in the earth's resources, conditions adequate to produce these future people eventually, provided of course that various possible catastrophes are avoided. Indeed, in some sense of ‘potential’ there have been countless billions of potential people from the beginning of time. But I am concerned not with such remote potentialities but with currently existing entities that are capable of developing into people.