Potapova N. N. Resource-saving in the management system of the housing and utility network of the region.

The problems of reforming and developing the housing and utilities network have recently become increasingly important. The crisis state of housing and utility services is caused by inefficiency of the management system which is not adapted to market conditions. In conditions of socio-economic reform, the management system of housing and utility services in the regions of Ukraine should ensure a significant increase in the level of resource-saving due to the formation of a mechanism for managing this process. The specifics of the implementation of general management functions in the sphere of housing and utility services are described in the work. It is substantiated that the formation of the resource management mechanism in housing and utility services objectively requires the implementation of a set of special management functions: accounting, standardization, legal support, information support. It has been substantiated that the purpose of improving the management system of the housing and utility network of the region is the formation of a resource-saving management mechanism. It represents an integral unity of functions and management tools which, in the new economic conditions, should contribute to enhancing the integrated regional resource saving effect. The article defines a range of the most important problems in the housing and utility services, for the solution of which the regional management system should unite departmental government bodies, relevant structures of local authorities, enterprises of all forms of ownership and the population in order to enhance the integrated resource saving effect in the region. Within the framework of the considered management functions the following tools can be used to enhance the integrated resource-saving effect: organizational arrangements; development of standards and norms; certification of products; integrated accounting of resources and utilities; creation of a competitive environment; activation of the investm