The precariat is an extremely popular and fashionable topic in modern economic and sociological research. However, unlike most other Russian works devoted primarily to precarious employment, this article actualizes the problem of housing precarity (precariousness of housing), which has been actively studied in recent years by representatives of various sciences around the world. Housing (rented, service, etc.) in this case is considered as an unsustainable, unstable physical place of residence for representatives of various social groups – young professionals, elderly people, migrants, etc. The author pays the main attention in the article to housing precarity in connection with precarious employment and migration (labor, forced, illegal, etc.). The problem of double precarity is discussed – the risk of losing both housing and work at the same time. Separately, precarity of housing is also considered in natural-climatic, financial-economic, state-political, socio-cultural, family, gender and ageist discourses. This allows us not only to look at the problem of housing precarity from different research positions, but also to highlight additional factors of this precarity. The article also shows foreign experience in measuring housing precarity. In Ireland, the USA and Australia, various methodologies are used – Housing Precarity Index (HPI), Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM), Precarity Index for Neighborhoods and City Housing (PINCH), and Neighborhood Employment and Housing Precarity Index (NEHP). In conclusion, the multifactorial nature of precarious housing, the routinization of temporary residence, the role of institutions and the state in the precarization of the housing sector and the formation of a home culture of precarity (using the example of co-living) are noted. The need to develop, based on existing approaches, a Russian housing precarity index, which should consider both national specifics and available statistical data, is also emphasized. The importance of further research and measurement of housing precarity in Russia is determined by the need to strengthen the evidence base for social policies aimed at improving the living conditions of various categories of the population.

Keywords: housing sociology, housing policy, precarity of place, precariousness of housing, housing precarity.