Аннотации:
This article represents and defines the concept and legal nature of the status of "civil legal communities" in a special socially significant sphere - housing legal relations, with the purpose of further effective application of this legal category in lawmaking and law enforcement activities. The general methodological basis was formed by the general scientific (dialectical) method of cognition, comparative-legal, logical methods that allowed considering the problems of legislation development in the sphere of establishing the legal status of a special subject of housing legal relations. We revealed the peculiarities of interbranch legal regulation of relations connected with the establishment of their legal status. We considered the approaches of Russian and foreign law enforcement practice on ensuring the protection of interests of the owners of multi-apartment buildings, their interests and some other aspects. We made some attempts to formulate the concept of civil legal communities in the housing sphere, determine their legal nature, and find the ways to resolve existing theoretical and practical problems.