The social housing stock in Italy is contracting. For economic reasons, the institutes that own and manage the social housing stock are progressively selling parts of it without replacing with new construction. But even this strategy is insufficient to balance their chronic deficit and their financial-economic situation is still alarming. As a consequence, some institutes drastically decrease the maintenance level and investments are almost non-existent resulting in deterioration of the housing stock. The problem of deterioration of the technical and functional quality occurs in particular within estates built between the 1960s and the early 1980s. Since the decay affects not only the physical but also the socio-economic sphere, new renovation processes and intervention strategies are urgently required. The housing organization ATER in Rome is managing the biggest social housing stock in Italy and is among the institutes with the most urgent issues. Their problem is of major societal relevance considering the current housing emergency that affects the city of Rome. The problematic situation of ATER and other social housing organizations in Italy is partly an inheritance of privatization policies that led to the separation of social housing from the public sector to private organizations. A similar trend has occurred in the Netherlands, where the (already private) housing associations were strongly regulated and supported by the government until the 1980s. Since the 1990s, Dutch housing associations have to operate their stock without (direct) financial support. Still, they are applying successful strategies to deal with social housing renovation. In this paper, we analyze if there are elements within the Dutch model that can be transferred to ATER. To address this issue, we described the management context of ATER Roma and its specific problems are presented. Place for improvements is investigated as a result of a comparison with the Dutch housing association’s model
Riccardo, F. (2007). Social housing renovation in Italy: which solutions can be found in the Dutch housing management model?. In “Sustainable urban areas” International Conference 25-28 June Rotterdam 2007 Book of abstracts. (pp.207). DELFT : OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies – Delft University of Technology.
Social housing renovation in Italy: which solutions can be found in the Dutch housing management model?
RICCARDO, FRANCESCA
2007-01-01
Abstract
The social housing stock in Italy is contracting. For economic reasons, the institutes that own and manage the social housing stock are progressively selling parts of it without replacing with new construction. But even this strategy is insufficient to balance their chronic deficit and their financial-economic situation is still alarming. As a consequence, some institutes drastically decrease the maintenance level and investments are almost non-existent resulting in deterioration of the housing stock. The problem of deterioration of the technical and functional quality occurs in particular within estates built between the 1960s and the early 1980s. Since the decay affects not only the physical but also the socio-economic sphere, new renovation processes and intervention strategies are urgently required. The housing organization ATER in Rome is managing the biggest social housing stock in Italy and is among the institutes with the most urgent issues. Their problem is of major societal relevance considering the current housing emergency that affects the city of Rome. The problematic situation of ATER and other social housing organizations in Italy is partly an inheritance of privatization policies that led to the separation of social housing from the public sector to private organizations. A similar trend has occurred in the Netherlands, where the (already private) housing associations were strongly regulated and supported by the government until the 1980s. Since the 1990s, Dutch housing associations have to operate their stock without (direct) financial support. Still, they are applying successful strategies to deal with social housing renovation. In this paper, we analyze if there are elements within the Dutch model that can be transferred to ATER. To address this issue, we described the management context of ATER Roma and its specific problems are presented. Place for improvements is investigated as a result of a comparison with the Dutch housing association’s modelI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
