The relevance of this study is due to the importance of the constitutional right of everyone to housing, its inviolability and inalienability. Because of the acute housing problem in the Russian Federation, concerning the lack of funds for the purchase of housing, many young families who need housing and improved living conditions. The purpose of the study is to analyze the features of the constitutional right to housing, the state of this institution in modern Russia, whose task is to improve housing conditions in the country and provide young families with housing. We achieve the implementation of the tasks with the help of general scientific (dialectical, analysis, synthesis) and specific scientific methods (formal-legal, comparative-legal). We note a number of social and economic conditions and factors affecting the realization of the right to housing for young families in the framework of existing state support programs. We draw a conclusion that at the moment there are a lot of state programs aimed at maintaining the level of the population, which could fulfill the social obligation of the state to its citizens. At the same time, the legislator should pay special attention to improving the legal literacy of the population, the accuracy of the target program activities wording description, the development of a mechanism for their implementation, as well as the development of a methodology for calculating indicators of the effectiveness of such programs.