On the Issue of Concept, Essence and Content of Constitutional Rights of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Housing
This work is devoted to the development of scientific ideas about concept, essence and content of constitutional rights of citizens of the Russian Federation to housing. The scientific article presents many different points of view on this concept and its content. The relevance of this issue is that there is a process of formation of a legal state in Russia. In this regard, the change is submitted to domestic legislation, which is designed to regulate this sphere of legal relations. The content of the constitutional right to housing should be based on recognized norms of international law, which understand the possibility of acquiring sufficient, comfortable housing and the right to own lodging. The legislator must strive to develop a strategic, legislative, economic and political mechanism for realization of this right by citizens. The authors consider issues of state’s participation in implementation of citizens’ constitutional right to housing. The conclusion states that not only the inviolability of lodging and inadmissibility of arbitrary deprivation of housing determines the constitutional right to housing, domestic civil legislation provides for other principles that characterizes this legal category.