Abstract:
After the mass privatization of the public rental housing fund, personal property in
apartment buildings has become the predominant type of possession in urban areas. As a result,
the issue of establishing a legislative framework for the functioning of owners' associations arose.
Due to the lack of experience, insufficiency of organization skills and especially insufficiency of
financial resources the organization and efficient operation of condominiums is a slow and
difficult process. During last ten or fifteen years, the apartment buildings, in Chisinau and other
Moldovan towns, are managed by one of the following associations: Housing Construction
Cooperatives (HCC), Associations of Owners of Privatized Dwellings (AOPD), Condominium Coowners
Associations (CCA) and Municipal Housing Service Companies (MHSC). Because of the
clash between these forms of administration we have a damaged housing service, obsolete
engineering networks, minimal infrastructural assets and traditional management methods.