The municipal property manager in the housing sector did not delight the capital's residents with a real firework of surprises.
"The early bird catches the worm" – probably, this motto is how the Riga Housing Management, known by the abbreviation RNP, lives, which is why it does not let the city dwellers sleep in autumn (in the fall, it is still dark in all the yards in the mornings when the 'leaf blowers' are used to sweep away the leaves) and turns off the lights in its office even before 5 PM – they have worked enough!
They are tired. No wonder: sending out hundreds of thousands of multi-page contracts proposing to continue the 'tenants-management' relationship in 2026. Not without nuances: the further it goes, the less Rīgas Namu Pārvaldnieks is responsible for anything at all.
And now, at the end of the year, everyone was surprised to learn that the RNP enterprise seems to be prepared for sale. Not even all participants in the power vertical in Riga were aware of this, causing a scandal.
Some began to suspect that they had probably found certain buyers from nearby foreign countries, who were told how wonderful this business is. And that they actually do not have to do anything, just scoop up money with a shovel.
But the problem is that other participants in the self-government coalition also want a piece of the pie, and the desire of colleagues to outmaneuver them is not welcomed. So they will look for loopholes in the documents, and it seems that any reasonably competent lawyer will tear such a structure apart in no time. With the housing management going for stock sale, it will be much more complicated than just managing social housing tenants to prevent them from making illegal repairs...
Overall, in our republic, there has begun a slow and solemn movement of regions towards "socialist houses" for young specialists and small-family dormitories for organizational recruits. And even if everything is done with EU money through the Altum program, you understand that nothing is new under the sun.
