At the intersection of Fuxing Middle Road and Tamsui Road, the Garden Apartment, an excellent historical preservation building, is now 98 years old, and the apartment looks "concave" from the air, because there is a French-style garden in the open space in the center of the building, and some of the trees are said to be the same age as the apartment, and every grass and tree is a witness of the years.
This year, the Fusan Neighborhood Committee of Huaihai Middle Road Street in Huangpu District, which had planned to transform the enclosed French garden into a fashionable pocket garden, held several hearings and rejected different versions of the design draft.
"Don't talk about pocket parks, now even osmanthus is not fragrant!" The residents' complaints made Dong Xiaojin, secretary of the general party branch of the Fusan residential area, suddenly realize that the residents' opposition to the renovation of the garden is that they are worried that there will be no one to maintain it in the future, "In the final analysis, there is no confidence in the long-term mechanism." ”
Located in the Hengfu Historical and Cultural District, only 42 of the 261 residents have property rights, and the rest are public housing tenants rather than owners.
In central urban areas such as Huangpu District, many public housing communities are facing the same situation. In recent years, with the support of legal provisions such as the Civil Code and the Shanghai Municipal Housing Lease Regulations, some streets have tried to explore the establishment of "autonomous home executive committees". The Garden Apartment is the first pilot community in the middle Huaihai Road street.
This past weekend, after the self-recommendation, audition and voting procedures, the residents of the garden apartment formally formed the "Garden Apartment Autonomous Home", elected 4 members of the executive committee who are enthusiastic about community affairs, and also voted to pass the "Happy Huaihai Garden Apartment Autonomous Home Rules of Procedure" and "Happy Huaihai Garden Apartment Autonomous Home Charter", the public housing management company transferred part of the rights, and the residents elected representatives of their respective buildings to form an executive committee to better realize the autonomy of the home. In the process of innovation and exploration, we should practice the major concept of whole-process people's democracy.
"Residents are very enthusiastic about public affairs such as garden renovation and parking management, but different voices exist at the same time and cannot reach an agreement," said Lin Chen, deputy director of the Huaihai Middle Road Sub-district Office.
Why is it so difficult to do good things? The difficulty lies in the lack of channels to adopt public opinion. Huaihai Middle Road Street actively explores innovative models, learns from successful experience, and hires law firms as legal advisers, hoping to establish an autonomous organization in the Garden Apartment, and truly do a good job of the good things that the masses care about. In the process of exploration, everyone also had concerns about whether the residents' representatives voted by the autonomous organization could represent the voices of all residents. In this regard, at the suggestion of Jin Ying, the legal counsel of the street and the director of Shanghai Jinyuan Equation Law Firm, we innovated and expanded the link of public opinion penetration and held several promotion meetings.
For example, on the day of the audition, Lin Chen added a lot of residents' WeChat, and one resident solemnly sent a message to Lin Chen: Although the garden apartment has a long history, some of its residents do not move around often. The street adopted the resident's suggestion, and the elected members of the executive committee will be announced, and a reception mechanism will be established at a later stage to facilitate the listening to the opinions of residents.
"In the process of the establishment of the organization, the results have begun to appear, awakening the idea of residents' autonomy," Lin Chen said, a resident heard the news of the preparation of the autonomous home, willing to remove the "zombie car" under his name, for the community environmental governance has made a good start.
In Lin Chen's view, the establishment of "autonomous homes" in garden apartments according to local conditions provides some governance ideas for the old housing community in a similar situation. For example, the residents' self-government organization of Huaihai Middle Road Street is deeply integrated with the grid workstation of the street, and in the future, whether the community garden is to maintain the status quo or renew the pocket park can be negotiated in the mode of "soft law and hard governance". The Executive Committee of the "Autonomous Home" has also pioneered a long-term mechanism for conflict mediation, providing legal support for problems that residents are concerned about or that were once difficult to reconcile, and the "Autonomous Home" is guided by the needs of residents to solve them.
The autonomy of the public housing community has a grasp, and the fragrance of osmanthus is not far away.