The municipal housing stock managing companies of Chisinau risk reaching a deplorable state, while the apartment buildings could enter the cold season unprepared, members of the public association “Urban Consulting” said in a news conference at IPN.

The association’s representative Ianus Cusnir said such a state of affairs is due to the debts for heat of over 600 million lei accumulated by the municipal housing stock managing companies during many years.

According to Ianus Cusnir, “Termoelectrica” monthly issues the bill to these companies, which, for their part, calculates the heat bills for each apartment based on the invoicing methodology. The volume of heat supplied by “Termoelectrica” does not yet coincide with the volume invoiced by the housing stock managing companies and the unpaid heat is classed by the heat supplier as debt. The municipal companies do not yet recognize these debts.

“Owing to the incorrect invoicing methodology used by the municipal companies, artificial debts are created, which are not included in the bills we receive and pay monthly. The dwellers do not know that the calculation mythology is incorrect and we thus owe money for the supplied heat,” stated Ianus Cusnir.

The association’s chairman Mihai Carlig said that the housing stock of Chisinau has faced big difficulties as of June 19. Some of the municipal housing stock managing companies are close to collapse because these lost all their employees. All the 23 municipal companies have temporary managers who were delegated by “Termoelectrica” to put things right and recover the money owed to the supplier.