The HBC wanted to ban the management of apartment buildings

Housing and communal services may be prohibited from managing apartment buildings, obliging them to be liquidated after completion of construction. As Izvestia found out, such a bill may be introduced this week by the head of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing from the United Russia faction, Sergei Pakhomov, and a number of deputies from the committee.

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Today, HBC acts as a developer and provides construction and reconstruction of an apartment building on the basis of a permit issued to it, according to an explanatory note to the bill, which is available to Izvestia. One of the functions of a cooperative may be to manage houses after their construction is completed. However, as practice shows, HBC often does not just assume these responsibilities, but also transfers them to third-party organizations, the document says.

"The transfer of such control takes place at best. At worst, a real anarchy is happening: payments are not being collected, debts are accumulating in front of resource workers. Therefore, we propose to exclude from legal relations such cooperatives, which in their essence are neither HOAs nor CC," Sergei Pakhomov explained to Izvestia.

According to him, in connection with this bill, it is proposed to liquidate housing and communal services after the completion of construction, so that within three months after the payment of the last owner's share they will be transformed into a HOA or hire a management company. After all, their main task is to build an apartment building, the deputy emphasized.

Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:

Too much housing and communal services: they want to ban the management of houses for housing cooperatives