The Personal Housing for a Student Youth in St. Petersburg: Dream or Reality

Abstract

Both the state and the society as a whole are interested in solving the housing issue. The great demand for providing the solution to the issue can be accounted for by the number of “needy” people, who are also the representatives of student youth, but the offer does not correspond to the existing circumstances. How does the State build a policy within the framework of the housing problem caused by a set of factors faced by the representatives of student youth: employment, salary level, price level and others? The article considers some options for addressing the housing issue not only with the support of the State, but also via the employment of other available strategies. According to the results of the research it was revealed that the tools of the State support are focused on a limited proportion of people of this age cohort, and the existing conditions for purchasing housing in the banking services market do not reflect the actual financial capacity of students. Thus, the solution of the housing issue of this age group becomes the competence of their parents, who are not entitled to take advantage of preferential conditions, which evokes new difficulties in solving the problem.