Abstract: the article is devoted to the analysis of the process of designing a new model of implementation of the citizens' rights on housing in the Russian Federation, and to the problem of including a new contract of noncommercial housing rental for citizens of the Russian Federation into the legislation. In the article, several aspects of the draft of the Federal law “Concerning modification of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and separate acts of Russian Federation regarding legislative regulation of the relations on noncommercial housing rental" are investigated. The previous attempts to include the new institute of housing rental into the legislation of the Russian Federation are highlighted. The presented data illustrates that such an institute might become an alternative to the present rental contracts, and would substantially change the conceptual-terminological apparatus of the Housing code of the Russian Federation. The possibilities of using the non-profit rental contract as a mean of solving the problem of housing of the needy and other categories of people mentioned in the law, as well as its prospective to become one of the main means to meet the housing needs of citizens with low income, are considered.
Key words: housing code, housing rights of citizens, housing rental, non-profit housing rental, non-profit rental contract