Which department is responsible for the collapse of the house?
It is managed and handled by the local people's government, and the specific management department is the housing and urban-rural construction department. Local housing and urban and rural construction (real estate) departments should continue to carry out in-depth safety investigation of old buildings and dangerous houses, establish information files of hidden houses, and further implement the responsibilities of housing property owners and users in accordance with the requirements of the Notice on Carrying out Safety Investigation of Old Buildings and Dangerous Houses in China. All localities should, in light of local conditions, speed up the study and formulation of relevant laws and regulations on housing use safety management, implement the responsibilities of all parties, and gradually form a management mechanism of coordinated linkage among housing property owners, users, property, communities and streets. Study and explore the quality insurance system of housing projects to ensure housing safety through market-oriented means. If the damage or collapse of the house is caused by problems such as design, survey or construction, and it is the fault of the developer, then the developer should be responsible for the loss of the owner in the compensation for the damage and collapse of the house; If the damage and collapse of the house are caused by force majeure such as natural disasters, then according to the exemption clause of the developer in the house wall crack in the house purchase contract, the developer only needs to return the house payment paid by the previous purchaser without additional compensation; If the house is damaged and collapsed due to man-made destruction by a third party, then the man-made destruction party is the person directly responsible and needs to compensate the owner for the loss of the house.