Housing or housing construction cooperative is a voluntary association of citizens to manage an apartment building. In accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, tenants have the right to join a voluntary organization serving their home.
Instruction manual
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Find out if your home is serviced by a housing cooperative. To do this, you can contact the senior citizen at home or the managing office of the housing and communal services. If there is no cooperative, tenants can organize it and select participants. For this, the founders need to hold a meeting and approve the composition by general vote. The decision adopted by the meeting of the founders of the housing cooperative is documented in a protocol. Please note that a housing cooperative cannot have less than five members.
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If there is already a housing cooperative in your house, contact its chairman and sign up for the next meeting of the organization. If there are more than five citizens who want to join the cooperative, the meeting is held extraordinary. At the appointed time, come to the meeting and wait until the end of the general voting of the participants in favor of nominating your candidacy for joining the cooperative. In case of a positive decision and fixing it in the protocol, you can consider yourself an official member of the housing cooperative.
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Remember that the Housing Code of the Russian Federation provides for some restrictions regarding the categories of citizens entitled to join a housing cooperative. It is owned by citizens who have reached the age of 16 years and legal entities that own a premises in this residential building. In addition, each housing cooperative has its own charter, in which certain rules for joining the organization and membership in it can be spelled out. Before entering, you have the right to familiarize yourself with this document.
note
The housing cooperative has a special management structure, which consists of a board and chairman, a general meeting of the organization’s members and a conference if more than fifty citizens participate in the cooperative. To take up this or that position, it is also necessary to take part in the general voting of the participants.
