Retrospective Analysis of Housing and Utilities Payment: Practical Aspect in the Context of the Pandemic

Utility fees have been in the mainstream in recent years, with the State taking all available measures to align payments made by owners and users of individual premises in an apartment building to the constitutional principles of certainty, fairness and proportionality not only de jure but also de facto. In 2020, due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection, the state adopted a number of measures of state and social support for the population, small and medium-sized businesses, in connection with which amendments to the law were introduced. The paper provides a critical review of legislative innovations in the field of housing and utilities payments and synthesis of proposals on measures of state support for housing and utilities organizations providing municipal services. The author examines preferences for citizens and management organizations. One of the most significant trends in the current conditions involves providing support for the population. The author notes the contradictory nature of approved innovations, analyzes their further influence on judicial practice and development of scientific-theoretical thought in the field of housing and civil legislation. The paper critically evaluates the “transformation” of the legislation regulating housing and utilities (communal services) fees. The main idea of the paper is the fact that in the current difficult situation the state should provide full support to organizations connected with housing and utilities to stabilize the society and the State as a whole.

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