Modern problems of rental housing development

The article considers the issues of housing provision of the Russian population. On the basis of the Rosstat data from the household budget surveys for 2014 the authors analyze the housing provision of households depending on the number of children under 16 and the level of per capita monetary income by decile groups. They examine the possibility of acquiring housing on the market for families with different levels of income, and substantiate the necessity of preferential development of the rental housing sector both in social and commercial forms. There is also analyzed the present experience in the creation of mechanisms for providing people with rental housing.