The Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with deputies, discussed issues of improving legislation in the housing and communal services sector
Marat Aizatullin, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services, held a meeting on improving legislation in the field of housing management with Ilya Wolfson, member of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services, and Dmitry Anisimov, Deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan. The heads of Tatarstan management companies were also invited to the meeting.
Ilya Wolfson informed about new legislative acts and planned federal laws in the field of housing and communal services.
"In recent years, together with the Committee's team, we have done a lot of work to restore order in the field of housing management. There have been many changes, including recent innovations: licensing requirements have been updated, making it easier for bona fide organizations to operate, and more difficult for unscrupulous ones to enter the market. They also obliged the Criminal Code to report to residents in a standardized form, so that annual reports would cease to be a formality, but would gain meaning and content," stressed the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
The financial and economic block considered, in particular, such topical issues as linking debts for housing and communal services to specific apartments and the need to legalize unified settlement centers in the Russian Federation as a whole. According to Ilya Wolfson, fixing utility bills not for a person, but for the apartment itself is one of the key ideas. "It is proposed to link a personal account to the cadastral number of the apartment. Then, when it is sold, the debts will be transferred along with the housing, - says I. Wolfson. – There is also a need to legalize the activities of settlement centers in order to make the settlement process understandable and uniform for everyone. We even worked ahead of the curve in this area and on Friday introduced a bill that defines the role of settlement centers in the housing and communal services system."