Managing a block of flats: legal aspects

The significance and role of the copartnership of the housing owners and the legalstatus of its members are defined. The corpartnership is viewed as a kind of a noncommercial organization based on the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and onthe regulatory legal acts of the local authorities. Some of the problematic issues are revealed of the creation and activities of the housing owners copartnership, and the trendsof thefurther development of this type of self-government of the citizens in the RussianFederation housing sphere.