ON THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDING PEOPLE WITH COMFORTABLE and AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The need to improve the housing conditions relates the households throughout the Russian Federation. The goal of an optimally organized economic system of a state is to provide all the categories of citizens the market opportunities to meet their housing needs. To analyze the structure of these needs, the authors applied the methods of dynamic and structural analysis of the data for the Irkutsk region. The trends were revealed in terms of the structure of the existing residential apartments as to the number of rooms in the Irkutsk region starting from 2000 to 2017. The linear approximation methods show the trends in the structural changes of residential apartments commissioned by the number of rooms from 2000 to 2017. An “ideal” dwelling structure for 2010 in the Irkutsk region was calculated, which corresponds to the needs of the population according to the 2010 census. The differences from the offered apartments within this period are shown. The practical result of the analysis can be a more accurate state planning of the housing needs, consisting in a clear structure of the future supply of apartments according in terms of the number of rooms, and dividing the offers, in line with categories of citizens, into market and state secured funding through the state programs.