The article reviews the question of building a regional investment program in the context of limited resources. When building a regional investment program in the context of limited resources, a need arises to construct a portfolio of orders with regard to their hierarchical priority, which, in this case, means a criterion for optimization. Using this approach, a program includes, first of all, objects which have qualitatively assessable indicators with higher values. To solve this task, we can use mathematical modeling tools and optimization (normative) tools containing expressions with algebraic operations, which can be maximized or minimized with certain limitations.