On the problem of the concept and content of the constitutional right to housing

The article is devoted to development of scientific ideas about the concept and content of the constitutional right to housing. The paper presents different points of view on this concept, including, the historical retrospective. The right to housing is regarded as a constitutional right, a complex legal institution and a subjective right of a citizen. The content of the constitutional right to housing should be based on the international law that define it as an opportunity to acquire adequate housing and an entitlement to own housing. In this regard, the state should strive to develop strategic administrative, legislative, political, economic mechanisms of realizing the constitutional rights of citizens to housing. In conclusion it is noted that in addition to integrity, inadmissibility of arbitrary deprivation of housing, defining the category of «constitutional right to housing», the civil legislation provides for other principles that characterize the criterion of «right to housing».