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WP3 Community PARTICIPATORY – Subnetwork meeting 2
Filippo Boschi, Heriscape
Rimini, 27 June 2014
Subnetwork meeting 2
SUMMARY
Summary
1. Housing: outlining Italian context
2. Proposal for a participatory action in Rimini
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
1. Housing: outlining Italian context
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Gap between real estate market and family income
Starting in the mid 1990’s, the real estate market has witnessed a
general increase in prices corresponding to a relatively small increase
in family income, generating tensions in the housing market, to which
the traditional instruments of Public Housing (Edilizia Residenziale
Pubblica - ERP) have difficulty finding adequate responses.
That phenomena started in the metropolitan areas is now affecting also
the medium-size city
Source: Questioni di
economia e finanza,
Occasional papers of Banca
d’Italia, “L’accesso
all’abitazione di residenza in
Italia”, Number 9 - July 2007,
by Giovanni D’Alessio and
Romina Gambacorta
(Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
New housing demands: recent changes
Housing demand in Italy has transformed over time, becoming more
complex and diversified, and is currently characterized by the presence
of “atypical” housing demand:
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strong increase in singles,
single-parent families,
immigrants,
temporary workers,
off-campus students and others.
Sustained by this new atypical demand, the extension of the housing
emergency is affecting intermediate segments of the population (grey
area) who until recently were untouched by such difficulties.
(Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
New housing demands: recent changes
After many years of favoring selfowned housing, with over 80% of
Italians
owning
their
homes,
policymakers also began to think
about the general need for flexibility
and the growing difficulty of those who
are not in the condition to take out a
mortgage or who need temporary
housing solutions, highlighting the
need to increase the availability of
rent-controlled rental units.
(Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Multiple target; different answers;
Multiple target:
• Immigrants;
• Off Campus Students;
• Singles;
• single-parent families;
• temporary workers;
• Homeless;
• intermediate segments
• (medium income
class);
• …
Different answers:
• Social Housing
• Affordable houses
• Housing first
• Rent market
• ….
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Fragmentation of institutions and stakeholders
The social housing issue is characterized by the presence of many
institutions, public and private, that operate at different levels addressing
distinguished needs and targets.
Often they act without a deep coordination and cooperation necessary to
identify demand, define roles and share a common policy to provide
effective answers.
This fragmentation becomes more ineffective since the social housing
target groups are less categorized, more interrelated and compete often
on the same market.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Emerging of new urban aspects and criticalities
During the last decade, new topics and new awareness emerged
characterizing the urban policy.
1.
Arrest the “greenfield consumption” / promote the urban renewal
and regeneration;
2.
Demand for urban quality;
3.
Sustainability and Green Building;
4.
Foster the participation;
5.
Explosion of social aspects.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Emerging of new urban aspects and criticalities
The new awareness combined with the economic crisis asks for new
policies and tools.
i.e. Emilia-Romagna recent urban planning law introduced a new kind
of standard: 20% of the new built-up area expansion has to be reserved
for affordable houses.
The crisis of the real estate market makes this measure not effective.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Social Housing: definition
“Social housing” signifies the set of
dwellings and services, actions and
instruments addressed to those who
are unable to meet their housing
needs on the open market for
economic reasons or due to a lack of
appropriate options on the supply
side.
The goal of social housing is to
improve the conditions of these people
by favouring the creation of dignified
social and living conditions so that
they may not only have access to
suitable dwellings, but also to rich and
meaningful human relations.
Percentage of rented social housing
in the residential sector in the major
European countries. Source: Housing
statistics in the EU
(Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Public limits and Social Housing funds
Given the lack of public funding, in order to achieve a sustainable social
and economic equilibrium, the Social Housing Programme focuses on
the segment of the population who are disadvantaged in that: they
cannot afford to pay rent at market rates, but who have not reached the
point where they are eligible for Public Housing (ERP) allowances.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
1. HOUSING: OUTLINING ITALIAN CONTEXT
Social Housing Funds: a Public/Private cooperation
The Bank Foundation began experimenting with an innovative model
based on sustainability and ethical investment (not free grants) to
expand the range of planning instrument.
The work of FHS developed along main axes:
• The promotion of ethical financing initiatives, and in particular, real
estate funds dedicated to social housing;
• The testing of innovative, no-profit management models;
• Development of project design instruments to be shared among all
sector operators;
• A public-private partnership to develop the initiatives in a manner
coordinated with and supplemental to existing public housing
policies.
(Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
2. Proposal for a participatory action in Rimini
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
Defining strategies to address the problems of people
to access social housing in a medium-size city
The purpose of the action to be implemented in Rimini (IT) (as one of
OIKONET PARTICIPATORY group deliverables) is to define possible
and feasible strategies as a solutions for the social housing in a
medium-size city.
The research will define needs and opportunities through an
integrated approach that involves public and private bodies.
The research includes data collection on specific demands (Rimini as
a medium-size city prototype), identification of opportunities (and
related criteria to access to), involvement of stakeholders through
different participatory processes (in order to verifies possible
strategies).
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
Objectives
The action proposed in Rimini responds to different aims:
• Creation of work-table engaging associations and institutions
involved in housing and welfare aspects, as possible part of an
integrated and participatory approach.
• Identification of social housing problems and possible
opportunities, as a baseline for future actions and policies;
• Outline possible solutions and pilot actions carried out by the
involved stakeholders;
• Offer a methodological approach as a contribution for a broader
housing policy;
• Disseminate the outcomes and the experience to evaluate the
possible application in different European contexts.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
Stakeholders to be involved
The identification of associations and institutions to be involved has to be
based on a deep knowledge of the existing associations and private/public
bodies active on the social housing issue.
In the case of Rimini, a first list could include:
• MUNICIPALITY OF RIMINI (social housing, youth policies, urban planning)
• CARIM BANK FOUNDATION (partner of Emilia-Romagna Social Housing
Fund)
• ORDINE ARCHITETTI RIMINI (Architect Registration Board)
• REGIONE EMILIA-ROMAGNA (Regional Government – Dept. of Social
Housing)
• UNI.RIMINI: (consortium sustaining the University of Bologna at Rimini)
• Acer Rimini (Affordable housing regional agency).
• CARITAS (Charity Catholic organization)
• PAPA GIOVANNI FOUNDATION (Catholic associations working on poverty
alleviation)
• SLASH ASSOCIATION (local student association)
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
Participatory process
To develop the research 2 methodologies will be applied:
1. Questionnaire and interviews to the stakeholder in order to
collect data;
2. Work-Table: 2 meeting sessions to discuss collected data and
information from all the representative stakeholders in which
elaborate proposals.
To implement the activities planned for the action links with other
Oikonet partners who works closely with the present issue:
• P17 - PFZ-University of Zagreb, Croatia;
• P19 - NOVA, Norwey;
• P28 – ELTE - University of Budapest, Hungary;
• …
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
2. PROPOSAL FOR A PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN RIMINI
Deliverables
According to OIKONET project, the deliverables produced by the action in
Rimini are:
Participatory activities:
1. Stakeholders mapping,
questionnaire, interviews and data
collection (up to December 2014)
2. Two Work-table (after September
2014)
Provisional outcomes:
datasheet and report on the work-table
3. Proposals, matching needs
and opportunities
(requirements, criteria,..).
VIDEO REPORTING
(deliverable 3.2- spring 2015)
Activities 1 and 2 will be recorded
to reflect the participatory action
and outcomes.
REPORT on
PARTICIPATORY actions
(deliverable 3.3 – spring 2015)
Analysis and critical investigation of
the results coming from the
participatory
action
and
data
collection.
Outlining the different types of needs
and new opportunities as a
contribution for a broader housing
policy.
Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014
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