Alexey Frolov: A transparent system in the housing and utilities sector has been built in Tatarstan
In Tatarstan, there is an understandable and transparent system of housing and communal services, which is strictly controlled by the state. This was stated at the meeting of the Volga expert club by the first deputy minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei Frolov. He recalled that the current Housing Code of the country has been working for 15 years. It is largely aimed at attracting private organizations to the housing sector, but this process has developed differently in each region of the country. “Where there is continuity of power, as in Tatarstan, the system is built, and it is tightly controlled,” - Frolov said. As an opposite example, he cited Moscow, where state unitary enterprises of the Soviet type are still operating, and billions of rubles in subsidies are spent on maintaining the housing sector. “We don’t have such a thing, this sphere lives on what the homeowners really pay for,” - Frolov explained. “It is necessary to clearly separate the sphere of housing management and the utilities sphere. In the utilities sector, the state needs to tighter control over the pricing of organizations. Because there are large resources and reserves that can be redirected to other areas,” - summed up Alexei Frolov.