Privatization of management and maintenance of municipally-owned housing : Moscow pilot program -- description and documents

signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Moscow to provide technical assistance to the municipal housing sector. The goal of this "Shelter Sector Reform Project" is to introduce and test private market principles in a housing sector that has been the exclusive domain of the state. The Privatization of Management and Maintenance Pilot Program was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of providing competitive, high quality private management and maintenance to Moscow"s municipally owned housing stock. This paper summarizes the Pilot Program implementation effort and outlines strategies to expand the privatization of management and maintenance on a citywide basis. (Author abstract)