The purpose of the article is to consider and to attempt to make a theoretical solution of a number of land law problems related to the organizational and legal framework for conducting individual housing construction in Russian Federation. These problems have been existing for many years and due to their unresolved status they do not lose their relevance. Within the framework of the article writing, the authors have identified a range of specific problems in the field of land rights realization by certain categories of Russian citizens, including disabled people, members of multi-child families and other citizens who have a legal right to receive land plots in the territory of the Russian Federation on special preferential terms. For this purpose, the article describes the existing list of categories of such persons who have preferential rights to purchase land plots, it reveals the content of their preferential rights, directly names the actual difficulties found in these rights implementation, and as a result, it concludes that the principle of providing affordable housing for citizens by the state in Russia is nominal only, but not real, and that the consequences of applying such a formal approach are unfavorable from a social point of view. As a result of the study, the main legal difficulties in the mechanism of the land plots granting to certain categories of citizens in the Russian Federation were not only identified and named, but also the appearance of these difficulties logic was explained, and possible ways to eliminate them in the future were proposed by the authors. For this purpose, the article thoroughly substantiates and clarifies the need for further improvement of land legislation in the field of regulation of the housing construction land resources provision in the Russian Federation.