The issue of housing precarity (affordability, safety and quality of housing) continues to be relevant all over the world for both tenants and homeowners. This statement is supported by a significant increase in the number of publications in recent years by representatives of various scientific fields on this topic in sociological, economic and housing-specific journals. To date, several approaches to measuring housing precarity have already been presented in Europe, the USA and Australia. In 2024, taking into account foreign experience and national specifics of measurements, the author of this article proposed the Regional Housing Precarity Index (RHPI), which takes into account various objective indicators of state statistics. Given certain limitations of such a method for assessing housing precarity, the next step was an attempt to turn to subjective assessments...

Keywords:

• housing sociology,
  
• housing precarity,
  
• perception of precarity,
  
• index method,
  
• regions of Russia.