Housing availability and birth rate

The issues of housing provision in Russia based on the results of the population censuses of 2002, 2010 and 2020 are considered. Data on the number of households and their sizes by the number of residents are provided. The trend of the rooms number changing according to the number of people living in them, in particular 1.02 rooms per person in 2021, has been revealed. According to this indicator, Russia is inferior to all European countries. The author points out the connection between housing provision and a decrease in the birth rate in Russia. The increase in housing construction in the country increases availability of housing for the country citizens, but mainly for the part of population that currently lives in normal conditions and has more rooms than the number of family members. If the number of family members exceeds the number of rooms in an apartment (house), this causes conditions for family growth to worsen because of the birth. It is proposed to accelerate creation of a unified register of citizens in need of better housing, creation of a social housing fund with no right to privatize, and the types of housing for the social fund.