Which department is the maintenance fund given to?

Theoretically speaking, the public maintenance fund belongs to the owner and should be decided by the owner himself. Now all localities are basically managed by the Housing Authority. The Measures for the Administration of Property Maintenance Fund stipulates that the owners' committee shall set up a special account in the designated bank in the community where the owners' committee is established, transfer the maintenance fund to the special account, and use it as required, and the relevant departments of the Housing Authority shall supervise it. However, in reality, the development of different regions is very uneven, and the northern and southern regions are doing better. Other fields are difficult to be managed by the industry Committee. Because the industry committee is a loose and completely spontaneous organization with unstable organizational structure, there are not many industry committees that can persist for a long time and operate well at present, so it is really worrying to entrust such a large sum of money to an extremely unstable organization for management.

The maintenance fund is handed over to the Housing Authority. In the process of buying and selling real estate, buyers should sign a purchase contract with the developer and pay the corresponding maintenance funds. Generally speaking, it will be paid according to 2% or 3% of the house price, and this part of the funds should be paid by the owner to the developer. The money collected by the developer should ultimately be dominated by all the owners, so it should be handed over to the developer or the sales unit, but its ownership should also belong to all the owners.

In practice, it is possible that the final fee will be collected by the property management company and managed by the local housing authority. Some housing authorities will also set up professional accounts and hand them over to the owners' committee of the community, and finally all the maintenance funds and interest will be handed over to the industry committee for management. After the expiration of the property warranty period, the Housing Maintenance Foundation shall not divert the public facilities, housing equipment and renovation, renewal and maintenance funds in the same area within the property management area for other purposes. The housing maintenance fund is dedicated to the large-scale maintenance of houses. If it is only a small-scale maintenance of individual houses, the housing maintenance fund cannot be used.

How to apply for a maintenance fund?

1. The owner applies to the owner's committee or neighborhood committee (hereinafter referred to as neighborhood committee) where the house is located;

2. After the neighborhood committee verifies that it belongs to the scope of housing maintenance, and puts forward the detailed budget of housing maintenance and the list of relevant owners who share the housing maintenance costs, it consults the opinions of the owners and accordingly fills out the Application Form for the Use of Self-managed Public Housing Maintenance Fund (both online download and copy can be made) and sends it to the original selling unit;

3. After receiving the application form, the original selling unit shall deposit the maintenance fund in the bank to print the bank deposit statement, and fill in the Approval Form for the Use of the Maintenance Fund for Self-managed Public Housing and the Withdrawal List of the Maintenance Fund for Self-managed Public Housing, and go through the examination procedures for the withdrawal of the maintenance fund at the City Housing Security Center with relevant information;

4. After approval, the original selling unit will deposit the documents and related materials in the bank for transfer according to the opinions of the neighborhood Committee, and directly transfer them into the designated account of the neighborhood Committee, and the neighborhood Committee will use the maintenance funds for the actual maintenance of the house.

I hope the above content can help you. Please consult a professional lawyer if you have any other questions.

Legal basis: Article 10 of the Measures for the Administration of Residential Special Maintenance Funds. Before the establishment of the owners' congress, the residential special maintenance funds deposited by commercial residential owners and non-residential owners shall be hosted by the construction (real estate) department of the people's government of the city or county where the property is located. The competent departments of construction (real estate) of the people's governments of municipalities directly under the central government, cities and counties shall entrust local commercial banks as the management banks of special residential maintenance funds accounts within their respective administrative areas, open special residential maintenance funds accounts, and set up sub-accounts with the property management area as the unit according to the house number; If the property management area is not demarcated, an account shall be set up in units of buildings, and a sub-account shall be set up according to the house number.