Governmental participation in the solving of housing problem in Russia

The state of the housing problem is an indicator as well as a factor of social and economic development. The nature of the housing problem and approaches to its solution depend on the internal and external social, political and economic situation in the country and in turn significantly affect on them. Currently in Russia the housing is very acute problem that refers to at least half of the population. The government participates in its solving on the federal and local level. The forms of participation vary from the drafting of laws and legal documents up to direct subsidizing certain categories of citizens. The paper considers the forms and the methods of governmental participation in the housing problem solving in Russia, the mechanisms and the results of their resource support; the principles of optimization of state participation in the housing problems solving; the model of estimation of the governmental participation in the housing problem solving, which takes into account the diversity of the forms, methods and results of the governmental participation.