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This paper examines the results of housing policy reforms in terms of their effects on private ownership, residential mobility, housing conditions, and housing affordability. It shows how data on these four characteristics of a housing sector reflect over time the large distortions in the case of Russia, and it highlights the improvements resulting from recent reforms. A summary of major reform measures, such as privatization and owners' rights, along with a review of housing construction and a brief discussion of the rental sector round out this report.

This report charts the evolution of American urban policy since the 1960s to help readers understand attempts to make our cities more livable and what these attempts reveal about the policymaking process and policy research and how that research has influenced American urban policy. Nine core topics in the urban social agenda are analyzed. They are economic development, poverty, family support and social welfare, housing, land use and transportation, education, drug abuse, racial discrimination and segregation, and intergovernmental financial arrangements. A chapter describing the evolution of the Urban Institute and a chapter on managing urbanization in the developing world are also included.

Privatization of state and municipal housing in the Russian Federation is but one element of housing policy. The authors offer specific recommendations for the future based on current rents and their relationship to family income, the feasibility of creating a program for increasing rents and introducing payments of housing allowances to the population (using simulations conducted for Moscow city), and analysis of alternative versions of a housing allowance program to determine effectiveness and results.

Privatization of state and municipal housing in the Russian Federation is but one element of housing policy. The authors offer specific recommendations for the future based on current rents and their relationship to family income, the feasibility of creating a program for increasing rents and introducing payments of housing allowances to the population (using simulations conducted for Moscow city), and analysis of alternative versions of a housing allowance program to determine effectiveness and results.

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