Dushanbe. June 15. “Asia-Plus” — Tajikistan should reform its housing legislation, executive director of the Consumers’ Union of Tajikistan (CUT) Bahodur Habibov has said. In his interview with AP he noted that he proposed to reform Tajikistan’s Housing Code back in 2006.
“After long discussions we have managed to design a ready-to-use material which will be disseminated among ministries and departments of the country for further discussion, introduction of amendments, changes and suggestions,” he said.
He also said that the discussion was scheduled for this summer but was postponed for unknown reasons.
“Current Housing Code repeats those norms which were developed back in the 20ies as fundamental norms for all former USSR countries. We can not apply old rules in our efforts to build a new market,” he said.
According to current Housing Code, the state is obliged to provide every citizen with housing, he added. “The Code says that each citizen who reaches 18 years of age and who has no housing has the right to be registered and demand housing from the state, since, according to the Code, the state ensures such housing. However, it is impossible to do that nowadays. This norm remains but in our economic realities it is impossible for the state to fulfill it. All these norms remain unchanged but nobody faces them as such. However, the presence of these norms obliges the state to guarantee such things which can not be guaranteed,” Habibov has said.
He also stressed that both Civil and Land Codes of Tajikistan were designed after the Housing Code. The Housing Code was approved back in 1997 without any changes.
“No harmonization of legislation was carried out which ensures that laws do not contradict each other. Current Housing Code is a clear reflection of the Housing Code of the Tajik Soviet Republic approved in 1976 and then in 1984. But in those times we had no other alternative since there was no opportunity to change the code,” he summed.
