Social, Economic and Legal Problems of Housing Management in Latvia

Residential house management sector affects society as a whole: starting with the state level and ending with the individual. Since Latvia gained its independence, the residential house management has evolved chaotically. Residential house management comprises not only an economic content, housing and its management has also a social character. Residential house management was and will always be actual as it affects basic needs of citizens. The services connected to residential house management, including public utilities, are of the basic necessity,which has to be accessible to all levels of society. The facility management price and residential house maintenance costs are the most significant factors in the choice of the form of facility management and manager’s appointment. The subject of the research is residential house management, factors influencing it and the choice of economically useful management type, but the object of the research is social, economical and legal aspects of housing management in Latvia