Housing maintenance fund is a special fund for the maintenance, renewal and transformation of equipment and public facilities in the same place in the property management area after the expiration of the property warranty period, and shall not be used for other purposes. According to the regulations, the owner can't apply. Only with the consent of the owners' management committee and the approval of the owners' real estate administrative department (in some places, it may be other departments or institutions) can the maintenance fund be used for audit. After the audit procedure is completed, the maintenance fund will be withdrawn from the designated bank with the audit procedure. How to apply for housing maintenance fund: (1) Purchased self-managed public houses are handled according to the following procedures: 1. The owner shall apply to the owner's committee or neighborhood committee (hereinafter referred to as neighborhood committee) where the house is located for house maintenance; 2. After the neighborhood committee verifies that it belongs to the scope of housing maintenance, and puts forward the detailed budget of housing maintenance and the list of relevant owners who share the housing maintenance costs, it consults the opinions of the owners and accordingly fills out the Application Form for the Use of Self-managed Public Housing Maintenance Fund (both online download and copy can be made) and sends it to the original selling unit; 3. After receiving the application form, the original selling unit shall deposit the maintenance fund in the bank to print the bank deposit statement, and fill in the Approval Form for the Use of the Maintenance Fund for Self-managed Public Housing and the Withdrawal List of the Maintenance Fund for Self-managed Public Housing, and go through the examination procedures for the withdrawal of the maintenance fund at the City Housing Security Center with relevant information; 4. After approval, the original selling unit will deposit the documents and related materials in the bank for transfer according to the opinions of the neighborhood Committee, and directly transfer them into the designated account of the neighborhood Committee, and the neighborhood Committee will use the maintenance funds for the actual maintenance of the house. (2) The purchased directly-managed public houses shall be handled according to the following procedures: 1. The applicant for the house to be repaired applies to the owners' committee or neighborhood committee (hereinafter referred to as neighborhood committee) where the house is located, and the neighborhood committee inquires about the storage of the house maintenance fund to be repaired to the district real estate management department after receiving the application; 2. The district real estate management department will feedback the inquiry about the maintenance fund to the neighborhood committee, and the neighborhood committee will consult the opinions of the relevant owners and put forward written opinions on agreeing to use the maintenance fund; 3. The neighborhood committee is responsible for entrusting the housing maintenance enterprise and proposing the housing maintenance budget; 4, the neighborhood committee to the housing maintenance budget, the list of owners and agreed to use the maintenance fund written opinions, submitted to the district real estate management department for review. After being audited by the district real estate management department, the neighborhood committee selects the maintenance enterprise, signs the maintenance contract and organizes the implementation; 5, the neighborhood committee to the district real estate management department for maintenance fund withdrawal procedures.