Amendments to the Housing Code have to do more professional work condominiums

MPs intend to revolutionary changes in housing management. The citizens will be responsible for repair of houses, and tenants will be able to conclude direct contracts for the supply of utilities. From 2013 to compulsory membership of management companies in the self-regulatory organization. Amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation have been made to a group of MPs, "United Russia" in the fall of last year. As stated in the explanatory memorandum to the document, the main purpose of the bill - to streamline the activities of housing associations (HOAs) and make it more professional. The situation really was not so easy, experts say. Housing Code allowed to attract businesses to provide management services for multifamily housing. But today, the activities of companies that manage them, is not regulated at any level. As a rule, the management company is a company with a small authorized capital, which has no logistics, no engineering staff or junior staff (INB). But while the operating companies take control of apartment buildings, where communications are alone many millions of rubles, without bearing any responsibility. In their management are approximately 150 thousand apartment buildings, which are home to more than 35 million Russians. The greatest number of complaints today is precisely the work of the Criminal Code, as well as unnecessarily high prices. No cost and without abuse. For example, at the same time exhibiting receipts for the same services by different companies are losing tenants of more than 7.5 billion rubles. per year, due to accounting abuses to 1.7 "extra" billions of rubles. Profit as companies engaged in the management and maintenance of housing stock in the last year grew by 33.2% - up to 5.8 billion rubles. compared with January - October 2008. In turn, the amendments propose to improve the contractual relationship of apartment owners and managers of organizations. So, set the maximum term of such contract - 7 years (now - a year, with possible extension to five). Automatically - unless the parties have claims against each other - it can be extended for another year. In addition, the authors of the bill propose to introduce an additional quarterly report of the managing organization of the absence of debt to service providers, provide for the possibility of making payments of resource-supplying organizations directly. The bill clarifies the way the same procedure for the establishment of homeowners' associations in new buildings, in particular, prohibited the developer to participate in the creation of HOAs. The authors propose initiatives to strengthen the control of the housing inspections to see how the housing stock is used, contains a general property, whether the procedure for providing public services requirements. From 2013 to compulsory membership of management companies in the self-regulatory organization. But in fairness it should be noted that the original bill contained a number of extremely unpopular. As explained by a member of the Duma Committee on Construction and Land Relations Galina Khovanskaya, the bill proposed to sell the apartment for the debts and after deduction of the debt issue to citizens remaining money on his hands. Moreover, the provision of alternative accommodation is not provided. In addition, the document also set out to penalize people for what the owners do not comply with the requirements for maintenance of premises and rules of the maintenance of common property in apartment buildings, including the requirements in a timely manner to repair the house. Discussion document published fairly rapid. As a result, the position of eviction disappeared from the document. Even more serious adjustment bill underwent in preparation for the second reading. As explained by Deputy Chairman of State Duma committee on labor and social policy, Oleg Shein, under public pressure from the bill were removed penalties for untimely repairs and inadequate maintenance of the premises. However, an agreement was not on all disputed issues. According to Oleg Shein, in spite of all objections, remained the norm for compulsory membership of management companies in the self-regulatory organizations. The minimum number of members - 100. "As a result, SROs will only lead large organizations is the fact that competition in this market will be destroyed," - said the deputy. Second reading states that belong to citizens on the right obschedolevoy property. Thus, "the owners of the premises in an apartment building owned by the right of common ownership in the common property of apartment buildings, namely: 1) placing in the house, not being parts of flats and designed to serve more than one room in the house, including stairs mezhkvartirnye platforms, stairs, lifts, elevators and other shafts, corridors, technical floors, attics, basements, which are utilities, serving more than one other room in the house the equipment (technical basements). " It is agreed that management companies will be able to enter into direct contracts with a monopoly on behalf of the owners. But the tenants will be entitled to enter into such agreements and without intermediaries. According to the expert of the Institute of Urban Economics, Dmitry Gordeev, amendments to a greater extent to solve the problems. "People should be responsible for the condition of your home. When in the country, such as roof leaks, no one would ever think of running for help in the municipality. Assistance should be provided only to people in need targeted", - said Dmitry Gordeev. At the same time the bill has provisions that are objectionable. "Mandatory participation in the SRO management companies - the wrong decision. I hope that it eventually will not be accepted" - believes Dmitry Gordeev.