Shirokov, A.V. Constitutional right to housing and “social housing” in Russia

Abstract: Currently the housing problem influences about half of the Russian citizens, and there is acute need to solve the problem of the so-called “social housing”, and to define the actions, which the government needs to undertake. It is obvious, that the new solutions are especially needed by the persons, living in the “slum” housing, who are obviously unable to use the benefits of the market economy and to purchase a house or an apartment elsewhere. What seizes the development of the housing problem in Russia, where the right to housing is provided for in the Constitution as an inalienable right of every citizen?