The national project Housing and urban environment ” occupies a special place among the totality of national projects because it concerns the issues, which affect every citizen of Russia. In terms of cash execution for 2018, this project is among the leaders, after health, demography and science. Despite overall positive results of the first year, still there are serious problems, which limit the opportunities for socio-economic recovery of Russia. Thus, is not fully understood the question of the correlation between the targets of national projects and the indicators of socio-economic development strategies of various levels; the substitution of grants with targeted subsidies within the framework of national projects de facto limits the independence of regions and municipalities in the implementation of their social and economic policy. In the case of the national project “Housing and urban environment” there are besides some other questions. For example, in assessing the urban environment quality index, spatial development is reduced mainly to predominantly architectural and planning organization of urban space; the prospects for new mechanisms of housing financing are not quite clear. The article analyzes the progress in the fulfillment of the national project “Housing and urban environment” and summarizes the most interesting practices, including in the sphere of “smart city” development.