Apartment and detached house owners can: to force in The newspaper writes that housing and utilities workers should install and maintain smart water and heat meters. “News”.
For citizens who have repeatedly refused the admission of public services to their housing, administrative responsibility will be provided, based on the report of the Ministry of Construction to the Russian government.
As previously reported, the installation of smart devices is planned to be included in the housing and communal services tariffs. Responsibility for their maintenance will be assigned to resource providers (RSOs). The interlocutors of the publication explain that payments for housing and communal services can grow by several percent, but citizens can also save resources.
Recall that from December 1, 2022, tariffs for housing and communal services in Russia are indexed. According to the government decree, the maximum price increase in all regions did not exceed 9%.
Indexing was previously scheduled for July 1, 2023, now the next tariff increase is expected no earlier than July 1, 2024.
In terms of spending, respondents “Romi” Earlier this year, they announced increases in spending on housing and communal services, pharmaceuticals and medical services, food, communications and the Internet, and household chemicals.
Reception of housing and community service workers to residences
According to the current legislation of the Russian Federation, the apartment without the consent of the tenants can be entered only in the event of an accident, when there is a threat to the life of the neighbors. In other cases, permission must be obtained through the courts.
People often live without gas or hot water for months because of neighbors who do not open their doors to welders, Tatiana Vepretskaya, head of the National Housing Congress, told the newspaper.
According to Ivan Vlasov, director of the IT company Filosoft, the law should state that the owner is obliged to provide access to the meter. In case of refusal – accrual of fines on receipt for housing and communal services. But only if the visit to a specialist is justified – for example, if the meter is broken or the verification deadline has passed, he noted.
Implementation of the initiative on compulsory admission of welding workers to apartments could lead to an increase in fraud in the country. The elderly are particularly at risk, says Alexei Mostovshchikov, member of the Delovaya Rossiya General Council.
According to ONF expert Pavel Sklyanchuk, the fact that experts are not allowed in apartments is a common problem of citizens’ distrust of housing and community service organizations, and is mostly the result of improper work by management companies.
At the same time, most residents do not interfere with workers – according to Sklyanchuk, there are only 5% of those who deliberately do not let them in.
Analyst Egor Klopenko suggests that measures to affect such residents should be economical – for example, the tariff on old meters should be slightly higher than on new smart ones, and then the residents themselves will call RSO employees.
as he wrote SberSova, the Russian government previously issued a decree that the payment for general household needs will be calculated not according to the standard, as before, but according to the actual consumption of utilities resources. These changes took effect on September 1 last year, and utility payments in the first quarter of 2023 were recalculated to take these into account.