Товарищество собственников жилья управляет домом.

It is a noun phrase with one main noun and two dependent nouns:

• товарищество = the main noun, association / partnership
• собственников = of owners
• жилья = of housing / residential property

So the structure is basically:

товарищество + собственников + жилья
= association of housing owners

A very literal unpacking is:

• товарищество = association
• собственников = of owners
• жилья = of housing

In natural English, this often corresponds to something like homeowners’ association or housing owners’ association, depending on context.

Because the subject is not собственников. The subject is the whole phrase товарищество собственников жилья, and its head word is товарищество, which is singular.

So Russian makes the verb agree with товарищество, not with собственников:

• товарищество ... управляет = the association manages

Even though owners is plural in meaning, it is only part of the phrase of owners. It does not control the verb.

Because the verb управлять normally takes the instrumental case in Russian.

So:

• управлять домом = to manage a building
• управлять компанией = to manage a company
• управлять машиной = to operate/drive a car

This is something you simply have to learn with the verb:

• управлять + instrumental

That is why you get:

• дом → домом

not дом in the accusative.

Собственников is genitive plural.

It depends on товарищество, because Russian often expresses X of Y by putting Y in the genitive case.

So:

• товарищество собственников = association of owners

The dictionary form is:

• собственник = owner

Its genitive plural form is:

• собственников

Because жилья depends on собственников.

So the internal structure is:

• собственники жилья = owners of housing / residential property

Then that whole phrase is put under товарищество:

• товарищество собственников жилья

So there are two layers of genitive relationship:

1. товарищество собственников = association of owners
2. собственников жилья = owners of housing

Also, жильё is usually treated as an uncountable or collective noun here, so the singular genitive жилья is normal.

Жильё means housing, living space, or residential property.

In this sentence, it does not mean one specific apartment. It refers more generally to residential property. That is why товарищество собственников жилья is a fixed legal or administrative expression in Russian.

So жильё here is broader than just home in the everyday sense.

Управляет is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular
• from the imperfective verb управлять

So it means something like:

• manages
• is in charge of managing

Because it is imperfective, it presents the action as an ongoing function or regular activity, not as a single completed event.

Russian has no articles like the or a/an.

So:

• домом can mean a building or the building
• товарищество can mean an association or the association

Which one is meant depends on context.

That is normal in Russian. You usually do not add any separate word for the or a.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible because case endings show the grammatical relationships.

The neutral order here is:

• Товарищество собственников жилья управляет домом.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Домом управляет товарищество собственников жилья.

This shifts the focus more toward the building.

Even when the word order changes, the cases still show who is doing what:

• товарищество is still the subject
• домом is still the thing being managed because it is instrumental after управлять

Yes. It is a common official expression in Russian, especially in housing and property management contexts.

A very common abbreviation is:

• ТСЖ

This stands for:

• Товарищество
• Собственников
• Жилья

So in real life, you will often see:

• ТСЖ управляет домом.

The stress is:

• това́рищество со́бственников жилья́ управля́ет до́мом

A rough English-style approximation is:

• ta-VA-ri-shchest-va SOB-stven-ni-kaf zhil-YA oop-rav-LYA-yet DO-mam

A few notes:

• жилья́ has stress on the last syllable.
• управля́ет has stress on -ля́-.
• домом has stress on the first syllable: до́мом.

Because домом is the instrumental singular form of дом.

The forms are different because they represent different cases:

• дом = nominative singular, dictionary form
• дома can be genitive singular or nominative plural, depending on context
• домом = instrumental singular

Since управлять requires the instrumental, the correct form here is домом.

So:

• управлять домом = correct
• управлять дома = incorrect in this meaning

Yes, the core meaning of управлять is to manage, direct, control, be in charge of. But in this housing context, the natural meaning is manage the building.

So here it means something practical and administrative, for example:

• maintenance
• utilities
• repairs
• building administration

In another context, управлять could mean control or operate:

• управлять машиной = drive a car
• управлять процессом = control/manage a process

But with товарищество собственников жилья, the housing-management meaning is the one you should understand first.