What is official housing and can it be privatized?

The notion of "service apartment" says that this type of housing is provided to those citizens who perform some kind of work necessary for the enterprise. According to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation st.101, such premises of the enterprise are provided to citizens who, according to their activity, must reside at or near the place of primary labor activity. To whom to allocate official housing, the expediency of this, determines the management of the company or organization to which the given housing fund belongs.

The room is a separate apartment or room gets the status of "official housing" by the decision of the executive body of the local government or the head of the district or city administration. Typically, under the service housing are allocated individual apartments, but in some cases, "rooms" are also rooms in communal apartments. If the consent of the general meeting of the members of the housing and communal services is obtained, then the housing in this house can also be recognized as official.

The right to obtain official living space is not granted to all citizens. The list of categories that need to receive office space is established by the Government of Russia, and Russian executive authorities. Servicemen are provided with service housing under the law "On the Status of Servicemen".

A document that is The basis for the delivery of a warrant for office space, is the decision of the company's management (enterprise, organization). This document is sent to the city administration, where the citizen receives a service warrant. It must be written out on a special form and marked as "official".

Between the administration that provided the office space and the citizen who received it, a lease or hire contract is signed in writing for the duration of the employer's work. This contract clearly specifies the obligation of the employer to vacate his housing at the time of termination of employment relations with the enterprise.

Is it possible to get official housing in the property? Until now, this issue is in limbo. A lot of people live in apartments owned by the enterprise and do not have the opportunity or just do not know how to privatize the service housing.

According to the relevant law of the Russian Federation, official housing can not be privatized. But there are cases when tenants of housing can draw up the necessary documents and get the consent of the enterprise management for privatization. It should be taken into account that in various regions of Russia local authorities are engaged in the privatization of office flats, so the conditions for privatization may differ materially.

In Moscow, according to a government decree, the office space can be privatized by tenants who have lived in this room for ten years or more. It is enough for such employees to write a statement according to which the contract of employment hiring will be terminated, and in exchange a contract on social hiring is concluded , in other words, it is necessary to transfer housing from the service fund to the municipal one. For the sake of justice, I must say that such a seemingly simple translation can take from several months to several years.