Management companies are asking the State Duma to allow the expected debts of Russians by housing and communal services to the State Duma collectors

The Chairman of the Council of the Association of Companies serving real estate (ACON), Lina Tkachenko sent the State Duma to the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodina and to the Ministry of Construction of the letter, in which she proposed to allow managing companies to transfer the right to return the overdue debt of citizens for housing for third parties, Kommersant reports .

Tkachenko proposed amending in paragraph 18 of Art. 155 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, which now prohibits the debts of residents.

Changes, as planned by initiators, will increase the collection of debts for housing and communal services. And these debts on the country's scale for the first quarter of 2023 were estimated at almost 900 billion rubles.

Management companies pay resource -supplying companies for debtors from their funds, explained Asterus deputy director Tatyana Khlebalina.

The idea of ​​transferring the debts of Russians in housing and communal services can have risks for homeowners, experts explained. Including-due to the threat of debt transfer to unscrupulous collectors.

The law, which prohibits managing companies to attract collectors to collect debts for housing and communal services, was adopted five years ago, in 2019. In 2024, Putin signed a law expanding the list of persons who cannot retrain the debts of citizens for a communal apartment. According to the law, if the housing landlord sold communal debts to the collection agency, then the transaction will be declared void. Also, you can not draw up a power of attorney to collect debt collectors.

By the way, since July, payments for housing and communal services in Russia take off by 10 or more percent - depending on the region.