חוק זכויות הדייר בדיור הציבורי (תיקון מס' 6), התשע"ו-2016Law on the Rights of Tenants in Public Housing (Amendment No. 6), 2016 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Public Housing Tenants' Rights Law (Amendment No. 6), 2016 (hereinafter - the Amendment), was passed in second and third readings on 30 March 2016. This amendment amends the Public Housing Tenants' Rights Law, 1998 (hereinafter - the Law), and concerns the anchoring of obligations of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and public housing companies regarding the provision of information concerning eligibility for public housing and to tenants in public housing - on a range of matters. First, the amendment provides that the Ministry of Construction and Housing must notify an applicant, within 30 days from the date of submission of the application for eligibility for public housing, whether he met the eligibility criteria for public housing, and of the ways to challenge or appeal the decision in his case. This provision will enter into force on the date of publication of the amendment in the Official Gazette. The amendment also provides that a public housing company will be required to provide the tenant, before carrying out repairs of defects, with a detailed list of the defects being repaired, the cost of the repairs, the tenant's co-payment rate and the co-payment amount. This provision will also enter into force on the date of publication of the amendment in the Official Gazette. In addition, the amendment expands the obligations of the public housing company anchored in Section 2 of the Law and requires it to send the tenant a semi-annual report, which will include, among other things, a detailed list of the charges imposed on the tenant during the reporting period and their nature. In this regard, the amendment establishes a sanction, according to which a public housing company that did not report to the tenant on the balance of his debts as stated, will not be permitted to collect interest, linkage differentials or any other additional payment due to non-payment of the debts on time. The amendment also provides that a public housing company will notify a tenant who received a discount on rent of the end of the eligibility period, two months before its end. The amendment also establishes an obligation to notify the tenant in public housing of any decision made regarding him, with the decision to be sent to the tenant within 14 days from the date it was made, and it must be reasoned and include the ways to challenge or appeal it. The amendment anchors the tenant's right to receive, upon a demand for debt or payment, a detailed list of the required payments, as well as his right to review his personal file and receive documents from it, except for internal opinions. These provisions will enter into force within six months from the date of publication of the amendment in the Official Gazette. An additional obligation imposed by the amendment on a public housing company is the obligation to provide the tenant with a delivery confirmation for every document he submits to it, in the manner in which the tenant submitted that document to it. This provision will enter into force on the date of publication of the amendment in the Official Gazette. Finally, the amendment establishes a general provision requiring public housing companies to display signage in their offices, in several languages - Hebrew, Arabic and Russian - stating the right to receive information about tenants' rights in public housing and the ways to obtain it, according to a format to be determined by the Minister in regulations. This provision will enter into force within three months from the date of publication of the amendment in the Official Gazette.

automatic translation · suggest a correction

Sponsors

Dov Khenin, Orly Levi-Abekasis, Ilan Gilon, Itzik Shmuli