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Negotiating Housing Maintenance Reform in Kazakhstan: Soviet-Built Housing in Aktau

Daria Volkova

Europe-Asia Studies, 2025, vol. 77, issue 7, 1203-1227

Abstract: This essay focuses on the place of Soviet-built mass-housing microdistricts and ordinary practices of maintenance in urban politics. The housing maintenance sector in Kazakhstan has undergone major changes following a reform implemented in 2020. The Aktau case helps to unpack how this reform has triggered a renegotiation of Soviet maintenance practices, revealing the underlying dissonance between the government-led approach and the discourse of ‘responsibilisation’ that arose after independence, when public housing was privatised. The line between supporters and critics of the reform is the border between Soviet-built housing and new estates, whose different materialities require, it is argued, different approaches.

Date: 2025
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