The housing maintenance fund is used for large and medium-sized repair and renovation projects of the main structure, public parts and public facilities and equipment of the house after the warranty period expires.

The main load-bearing structures of houses include foundation, internal and external load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors and roofs. Public parts refer to outdoor walls, hallways, stairwells, corridors, etc.

Public facilities and equipment refer to water supply and drainage pipelines and equipment, distribution cables and equipment, elevators, public lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, ditches, non-operating parking garages, public cultural and sports facilities and other facilities and equipment owned and used by the owner. The maintenance fund is managed by the Housing Authority, and the application process is complicated.

2, the establishment of housing maintenance fund:

Residential special maintenance funds are applicable to load-bearing walls, roofs, staircases, elevators, etc. If you want to use the maintenance fund, you need to follow the "double two-thirds special majority principle", that is, the owners who account for more than two-thirds of the total construction area and more than two-thirds of the total number of people discuss and approve the use plan.

The use of residential special maintenance funds shall be approved by the real estate administrative department or the corresponding management department. Owners should go to the relevant housing authority, housing safety appraisal department, audit bureau, professional banks and other departments to handle nine major issues, such as the application for professional appraisal of housing safety, the audit of budget and final accounts of maintenance plans, and the application for fund allocation of professional banks.

Legal basis: Article 63 of the Regulations on Property Management in People's Republic of China (PRC), the real estate administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall recover the misappropriated special maintenance funds, give a warning, confiscate the illegal income, and may impose a fine of less than 2 times the misappropriated amount;

Property management companies misappropriate special maintenance funds, and if the circumstances are serious, the qualification certificate shall be revoked by the department that issued the qualification certificate; If the case constitutes a crime, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.