Strengthen and improve residential property management! Ten departments including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice.

　　On January 5th, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Central Political and Legal Committee and the Central Civilization Office jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening and Improving the Management of Residential Property. The Notice puts forward requirements for improving the level and efficiency of residential property management from six aspects: integrating into the grass-roots social governance system, improving the governance structure of owners’ committees, improving the service level of property management, promoting the development of life service industry, standardizing the use and management of maintenance funds, and strengthening the supervision and management of property services.

　　Expand the coverage of property management

　　The "Notice" pointed out that streets should promptly and actively promote owners to set up owners’ meetings, elect owners’ committees, hire property service companies, and implement professional property management. Temporarily do not have the conditions for the establishment of the owners’ meeting, explore the establishment of a property management Committee attended by community residents’ committees and owners’ representatives to temporarily replace the owners’ Committee to carry out its work. Combined with the transformation of old urban residential areas, guide residents to negotiate and determine the management model of old residential areas, and promote the establishment of a long-term mechanism for property management. Encourage property service enterprises to manage the old residential areas around the project in a unified way. Temporarily do not have professional property management conditions, by the street through the community residents’ committee custody, social organization custody or residents from the tube, and gradually realize the full coverage of property management.

　　Optimize the use process of maintenance funds

　　The Notice pointed out that it is necessary to improve the efficiency of the use of maintenance funds, optimize the use process of maintenance funds, simplify the application materials and shorten the time limit for review. The establishment of emergency maintenance list, in line with the contents of the list, the owners’ committee can directly apply for the use of maintenance funds, has not yet produced the owners’ committee, by street organizations on behalf of the maintenance, and related expenses shall be charged from the maintenance funds. Exploring maintenance funds to purchase elevator safety liability insurance. At the same time, explore entrusting professional organizations to operate maintenance funds, speed up the construction of maintenance fund management information system, and facilitate real-time inquiry by owners.

　　Try to establish a red and black list of property enterprises

　　The "Notice" pointed out that the sharing of registration information departments of property service enterprises should be strengthened, and the system of filing property service contracts and project leaders should be explored and improved. Improve the bidding system of property management, and strengthen the supervision of bidding agencies, bid evaluation experts and bidding activities. Guide the owners’ committee to select property service enterprises through public bidding. On the basis of soliciting opinions from the streets, the housing and urban-rural construction departments have established a red and black list system for property service enterprises to promote the formation of a market environment for survival of the fittest. Property service enterprises and persons directly responsible for serious violations of laws and regulations and vile circumstances shall be cleared out of the market according to law. (CCTV reporter Tigerson Yang)