Alferina O.N. 1
1 Ogarev Mordovia State University
In the article the Home Owner Association as one of organizational forms of collective ownership and management housing is studied. The development of this form of self-organization in the environment of housing and communal reforms and rapid increasing of share of private housing is objectively necessary and economically driven. During our study major advantages and draw backs of Home Owner Associations are revealed; the problems arising during their creating and operating are defined. Among the causes restraining wide spreading and development of Home Owner Association in Russia are imperfection of regulatory and legal framework; unpreparedness of the population to self-organization in solving the problems of common property management including insufficiency of knowledge for organizing of effective Home Owner Association operation etc. All of the above allow us to determine number of steps that would promote the further development of Home Owner Association in national practice.