Current approaches to state housing policy

Abstract

The housing sector is the most important area of society’s development, in which housing needs are met. The article presents the results of a study of the state housing policy in the modern large city of St. Petersburg.The paper presents the results of a study of the state housing policy in the modern large city of St. Petersburg. The article identifies the most significant trends in the transformation of the housing sector of the Russian Federation, shows the inconsistency of the processes of their implementation. The necessity of taking into account the positive experience of minimizing social inequality in the housing sector is substantiated. Attention is drawn to the existence of contradictions in the priorities of the State Program ≪Providing citizens of the Russian Federation with affordable and comfortable housing≫, which results in the restriction of the right of citizens to meet their housing needs.It seems that the analysis of contradictory trends in the development of the housing sector, which is the purpose of the presented work, will be a definite contribution to the study of the modern housing sector in Russia, as well as the development of practical recommendations aimed at improving the state housing policy and its implementation.