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WP3 Community PARTICIPATORY – Subnetwork meeting 2

Filippo Boschi, Heriscape

Rimini, 27 June 2014 Subnetwork meeting 2

Wp3 Subnetwork meeting 2, Rimini, 27 giugno 2014

SUMMARY

1. Housing: outlining Italian context 2. Proposal for a participatory action in Rimini

Summary

1. Housing: outlining Italian context

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: Fondazione Housing Sociale)


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


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:

• 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)



New housing demands: recent changes

After many years of favoring self-owned 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)



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 • ….



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.



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.



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.



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. (Source: Fondazione Housing Sociale)


Percentage of rented social housing in the residential sector in the major European countries. Source: Housing statistics in the EU


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.



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)



2. Proposal for a participatory action in Rimini

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).



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.



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)



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; • …



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)

VIDEO REPORTING (deliverable 3.2- spring 2015)

Activities 1 and 2 will be recorded to reflect the participatory action and outcomes.

3. Proposals, matching needs and opportunities (requirements, criteria,..).

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.

Provisional outcomes: datasheet and report on the work-table



This project is funded with support from the European Commission (Project number 539369-LLP1-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS). This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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