How to get in line for housing in the Moscow region

What to do if you have nowhere to live? Unfortunately, anyone can end up on the street. No one is immune from financial difficulties, debt collectors who collect debts and take away apartments, family troubles, natural disasters or catastrophes, or household negligence that causes a fire. As a result, a person finds himself without a roof over his head, and what’s more, without money that can provide a more or less tolerable existence. What to do if you have nowhere to live and no money? Let's consider several different situations and ways out of this situation.

Help from friends and relatives in difficult situations

Anything can happen in life. Renters of living space, even with an official contract, are often not insured against the fact that the owner may ask you to pack your things and not give you time to find a new apartment; anyone can lose their own home due to a fire or natural disaster, and how many defrauded shareholders are there in Russia? Families are breaking up and out-of-town mothers and children have nowhere else to live, apartments are being taken away for debts, and real estate prices are taking away the last hope of purchasing their own home. There are many situations and they are all sad.

What to do if you have nowhere to live? Of course, first of all you need to contact your relatives or friends. In difficult situations, people are ready to shelter their relatives and friends, often even for free or for basic help with housework. Elderly grandparents are ready to share their living space even with strangers in exchange for pleasant company, help around the house and minimal care. It may turn out that even colleagues with whom communication did not work out are kind people who will accept you for a while in case of difficulties.

Therefore, if you have nowhere to live, it’s worth asking around whether friends or relatives can provide shelter for a while. It is unlikely that a person in a difficult situation will be refused, unless there are really compelling reasons. Of course, here we are not talking about a banal desire to live separately from the mother, with whom the grown-up child constantly quarrels, or from the old grandmother, who is “fed up” with nagging. People are ready to help, but only to those who really need it.

Renting a dorm or shared room

What to do if you have nowhere to live? For the first time, you can rent a small room, move in with some grandmother (they often rent out part of the apartment for the sake of at least some additional income for retirement and just company) or go to a hostel. When deciding to rent an apartment or a room with a hostess, you need to be prepared for the fact that many things will be prohibited: guests, loud music and smoking, at a minimum. In most cases, tenants are called to the table, so a person who finds himself in a difficult situation is unlikely to be left without food at all.

Many retirees are willing to share their home with someone else for free. Often in these cases, the tenant pays only for utilities and part of the groceries. True, caring for an elderly person is not always easy and pleasant; you need to adapt to the pensioner’s regime and his well-being. The problem with elderly owners is that, due to memory problems, they may begin to suspect the tenant of theft, for example, so quarrels and conflicts are unlikely to be avoided.

You can stay in a more or less decent hostel in Moscow for 200 rubles per day if you pay for the month at once, the daily cost will be 500 rubles. The rooms have several beds (four, six or eight), a locker, a hanger, a TV, there is a TV on the floor toilet and shower. Another option is to rent a bed in an apartment. This will cost less than a whole room, but there is an option that you will have to share a one-room apartment with the owner or a potentially dangerous person. However, this is better than spending the night at the station or on a bench in the park.

Difficulties in the life of a young family: where to go?

What to do if a young family has nowhere to live? Newlyweds are usually helped by their parents, so if the young people do not have their own home, they can live with them, especially if they already have children - their grandchildren will definitely be welcome. Of course, everyone dreams of owning an apartment, but first you need to get a job and get on your feet. Only then can you think about a mortgage.

Does your family have nowhere to live? What to do if there are no relatives or friends? In this case, you will have to go to city shelters (many help young mothers and pregnant women), rent a room in a hostel or in an apartment with a landlady. Spouses, if they do not yet have children, will be able to work, otherwise all worries about the material side fall on the shoulders of the newly-made father of the family.

State assistance in purchasing housing

State policy is aimed at helping young and large families purchase or build their own housing. The problem of providing housing is relevant for 72.7% of young people, so the state is constantly developing and implementing assistance programs. If spouses are under 35 years of age and need to improve their living conditions, have children and a constant income, then the state can provide a subsidy (30%) when purchasing an apartment or lending on preferential terms. Similar conditions apply to families with many children. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire your own housing if you have nowhere to live in Moscow. What to do? Collect documents and apply for assistance. This option is suitable only for those who have a regular source of income.

Existing restrictions for the owner of municipal housing

After receiving a municipal apartment for use, you need to know about the restrictions that its new residents have:

• since the recipient is not the full owner, he will not be able to sell or exchange an apartment or house (although there is the possibility of further privatization of housing subject to certain conditions);
• in the event that the apartment was not privatized and its owner died, then if no one else was registered in the living space, it returns to the ownership of the state;
• if there are periodic complaints from neighbors about noise (for example, related to drinking alcoholic beverages), then the owner of the property may be evicted without the right to further return the space.

Shelters for pregnant women and single mothers

Most children who are in orphanages and boarding schools have parents. Volunteers are actively trying to solve the problem of the relationship between a young mother, who has serious difficulties in life, and her child, who create centers where a woman can not be separated from her child. In such centers, women are taught to cook, care for the baby, and understand him; children with diagnoses are placed in hospitals and sent for operations. Such centers exist only through voluntary donations.

What to do: have nowhere to live with a child? A pregnant woman or mother with a baby can contact one of the social centers. They help women who are addicted to alcohol or drugs, but want to start a new life, who have suffered from domestic violence, who themselves grew up in an orphanage or boarding school, who have been released from prison, or who simply find themselves in a hopeless life situation and have been turned away by their loved ones, for example.

How can they help a woman in a shelter?

Women are taught to be good mothers, they are helped to adapt to society so that they can find a job and raise a child with dignity. As a rule, private centers have developed a clear daily routine and adaptation program for residents. Women are visited by a priest, psychologist and children's teacher, and are allowed to call their families only on weekends. Girls can work in shifts so that someone has time to look after the children.

Social support is also provided to residents. Center employees help restore documents, deal with debts, wills and alimony, receive social assistance from the state, and get a job. No place to live and no money? What to do if you also have a child in your arms, and the woman has suffered from domestic violence or her relatives have turned their backs on her? In this case, they will definitely help in centers for single mothers, already established and future.

Features for different categories

Service for military personnel

There is a special website for this category of people - dom.mil.ru. There you can find out information about your position in the unified register of housing for military personnel.

For orphans

In many regions, there are online services for obtaining information about the provision of housing for graduates of orphanages. To find out information about yourself, you need to go to the website of the regional ministry or department of social support and protection.

To do this, just type in the search engine the phrase “Social protection authority of the ……….. region.” Further on the site you can find such a section. Enter your details and get the information you need.

Shelters for people in difficult situations

What to do if you have nowhere to live in St. Petersburg or Moscow, as well as in other large Russian cities? It is possible to contact special shelters that provide temporary housing while solving social problems. Volunteers often take care of those whose houses have burned down, those who have been discharged from the hospital but find they have nowhere to go, former prisoners, and so on. Those who find themselves in a difficult situation are provided with assistance in restoring documents, finding employment, residents are provided with three meals a day, have a roof over their heads and are provided with first-aid care. People are given the opportunity to work if they comply with the rules of residence.

How to speed up receipt?

As a rule, most citizens, especially those who have been waiting in line for a long time, wonder what needs to be done to speed up receipt? In principle, there are not many options for speeding up this process:

• review information about those categories of persons who are entitled to special benefits when joining the queue - perhaps you unknowingly missed them and did not indicate them in the application. Then you should contact the administration body again to submit updated data;
• if, while waiting, new circumstances arise that allow you to receive a benefit, you also need to provide new information and then you can significantly advance in the queue.

Night houses in Moscow and St. Petersburg

What to do if you have nowhere to live? In Moscow and St. Petersburg, people without a fixed place of residence can turn to shelters for help. You can spend the night there for free, and frequent visitors can tell you the addresses of cheap or even free charity canteens. Such overnight stay homes follow their own laws, for example, you need to arrive at some of them no later than eight o’clock in the evening. There are several social adaptation centers in Moscow: near the Bratislavskaya, Teply Stan, and Yugo-Zapadnaya metro stations. You can at least spend the night there if you have absolutely nowhere to go.

Queuing and waiting

After registration, you should not expect to receive housing as soon as possible. According to data from 2021, citizens who joined the queue on a general basis in 1990 received housing. The waiting period ranges from six months to 20 years. It all depends on many factors: the category of applicants, housing and the availability of government programs.

What documents need to be completed

Documents that require queue processing are divided into several types:

• personal: passport, certificates of marriage, birth of children, education diplomas;
• financial: certificates, statements from banking institutions to identify the real income of the family;
• identification: certificate of registration at the place of residence, extract from the house register, SNILS, TIN, title documents for the family’s housing.

The package of documents is being reviewed. The authorized body is obliged to do this within 30 days. After their expiration, the citizen receives a notification by mail or email about what decision was made.

Deadlines for obtaining housing

Citizens registered on a general basis receive an apartment for 25 years. This is an approximate figure. As for the conditional first-priority people, they can become owners of a social apartment a little earlier, by about 2 years.

Monastic life for men and women

Some decide to go to a monastery, but this desire must come from the heart and be completely sincere. If a person comes for a while to sort out his life and get closer to God, he is called a laborer, and those who intend to stay forever become novices. In monasteries, people do some kind of work for shelter and food.

A woman who aspires to become a nun must pray for several hours every day, have no bad habits, go outside the church only on monastic business, spend her holidays in holy places, eat a meager diet, do a lot of physical labor and strictly adhere to her vows. The rules of conduct for a man are not much different from those listed above.

Entering a monastery is a very important decision, so it is better to think twice and perhaps consider other options for overcoming difficulties in life.

How to find out your account number

As mentioned above, in order to find out your place in the queue, you need to have information about your account number. It is indicated in the notification that the applicant is registered. If for some reason this document is not available (for example, lost), then you can obtain the necessary information from the organization where the documents were submitted. For example, the local administration, the department of social protection of the population, and so on.

When visiting, you need to take your passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation with you. Also, most likely, you will need to write an application in free form with a request to indicate an account number, but most often it is done without it - the organization’s employees find the applicant in the database using passport data and provide the account number. It is recommended to write it down so you don’t have to deal with this issue all the time.

If the applicant is not found, it is possible that since the last application he has already been removed from the queue for one reason or another. It is recommended to immediately try to understand the situation and, if necessary, go to court.

Employment for persons without a place of residence

There is no place to live with a child... What to do? A woman can be helped with a roof over her head and food in a special center or shelter, but a single mother will still have to get a job in order to eventually return to a normal life. Employment is an important step for any person without a fixed place of residence. But it is very difficult for homeless people to get a job somewhere (let alone officially) without registration.

A homeless person can get a job as a janitor, loader, painter, plasterer; it would be nice to find a job that also provides housing for workers. You can get a referral from the Employment Center, especially if you enlist the support of the help center staff. But even with this direction, employers are in no hurry to hire homeless people. More often, public works are offered under a contract - this is also an opportunity to earn extra money.

Help for people who have lost their housing

After a fire or natural disaster, a large family has nowhere to live? What to do in such a situation? If housing becomes uninhabitable as a result of an emergency, the state compensates for the damage. Such people are issued housing certificates and are provided with support in restoring (if possible) or purchasing a new living space. Compensation for damage may be denied if the lost housing was not the only one owned by the victims.

The housing certificate is valid for one year from the date of issue. During this period, victims must contact the authorized body to provide them with other living quarters. After a calendar year, the certificate is considered invalid; if there are errors in the design or the document is damaged, then a duplicate with the same validity period is issued. In the event of the death of the owner, the validity of the certificate is not extended.

What is a waiting list for housing?

This is an accounting of citizens in need of improved living conditions. The fact of need and the classification of a particular applicant into a socially unprotected category, for example, as disabled, are taken into account. Article 57 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation describes the procedure for providing apartments.

IMPORTANT: any fact of disability is confirmed by a medical commission.

General description and essence

How to get on the waiting list for housing? This can only be done as part of support when joining one of the government programs.

The law makes demands on citizens. If a person meets them, then he takes part in the program and, after submitting documents and their approval, gets in line to receive housing. The requirements are different, it all depends on the specific circumstances of the case. But the main thing that the applicant must understand is his urgent need to improve housing conditions. The minimum area for 1 person in Moscow is 12 sq.m. If less, the family is considered needy.

When receiving an apartment, citizens must understand the following:

1. It is provided on the basis of a social tenancy agreement. The real owner of the apartment remains the state represented by the authorized bodies that are responsible for this issue.
2. An applicant for an apartment must have not only the status of someone in need, but also a low-income person. The latter fact is confirmed by a voluminous package of documents.
3. Participants in government programs are citizens of the Russian Federation.

The queue for obtaining residential premises looks like this:

• submitting an application from a citizen about the possibility of providing him with housing;
• a special commission examines the submitted papers;
• making a decision;
• registration.

This is a short procedure on how to get on the waiting list for an apartment. In practice, getting an apartment is a long process.