Housing is a basic need - the Home Owners' Association's got your back!
The majority of Finns want to live in their own home. The Home Owners' Association wants to promote small housing and bring more real options to Finnish housing policy. The Association honours individual housing, a sense of community, and comfortable living environs.
The Association's goals are to
- ensure that the living costs and obligations of home owners are reasonable and fair.
- promote small house maintenance through knowledge and info on renovation, major overhaul and building.
- make the voice of the people heard by promoting civil activity.
The Home Owners' Association also acts on international level
Because EU-regulations leave only very limited room for national interpretation, it is important to be on top of upcoming regulations and changes. Therefore, we are actively taking part in the early decision-making process on the international level, and making the voice of Finland's small house dwellers heard.
EU regulations reach into various sectors of life more intensively than ever before. Of these sectors, energy, global warming, housing, building and consumer positions are right in the centre of operations for the Association.
In the coming decade, energy efficiency demands and exhaust regulations are going to get tighter, and the effects of global warming policies on small housing are going to increase. These decisions are based on Finland's international treaties.
Housing in general and heating costs in Finland differ greatly from those in southern Europe, and this is why we need to be around the decision-making table, to tell our view.
Nordic co-operation
We keep regularly in touch with our Nordic brother associations – the Swedish and Norweguan home owners' associations Villaägarnas Riksförbund and Huseiernes Landsforbund.
Through an exchange of experiences and ways of working, we get new ideas and perspectives that benefit all parties.
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Villaägarnas Riksförbund and Huseiernas Landsforbund visited Finland in October 2014. During the two-day visit, we heard about Nordic living in single-family homes as well as the work of these organisations. The Swedes and Norwegians listened with interest about our association’s home maintenance book and house janitor services, -as they do not offer these kinds of services themselves yet.