Concerning the Social Housing, Italy has been the scene of a blessed recovery in the last ten years , after several decades where residential public intervention radically and dangerously diminished. This has mostly to do with the enactment of some regulatory instruments such as the National Social Housing Plan, that is part of the 133/2008 “Financial Law” and management tools as integrated plans and urban equalization. Thanks to that, it has been possible to exceed the historical limits connected to the building areas acquisition, focusing new partnership between public policy maker and private stakeholder. However this brand new perspective is part of a context where the economic background that sustained the public intervention seems to be deeply changed, because of the new administrative organization, caused by the introduction of fiscal federalism – that significantly decreased economic resources to the local governments – and, at the same time, by reason of post-crisis real estate dynamics, which doesn’t support the general government budget, imposing charges and taxes . Crisis diminished public investment resources but simultaneously increased social housing needs by reason of disintegration of the middle class, that looks more and more for public housing, unable to support the cost of acquisition – and because of new kinds of social diseases: immigration, unemployment, divorced and jobless people and the elderly single people. This gap between public supply and demand is at the moment the main problem in public policies and it can only be exceeded assigning new roles to parties with the widespread use of established tools such as project financing, to finally and effectively transform public institution from financial backer into planner. The purpose of this essay is to highlight new possibilities of city planning implementation as well as they appear in the matched framework of regulatory instruments combining instruments of urban planning and economic dynamics.
Urban Equalization and Project Financing in Social Housing Policies
Rusci, Simone
Primo
2017-01-01
Abstract
Concerning the Social Housing, Italy has been the scene of a blessed recovery in the last ten years , after several decades where residential public intervention radically and dangerously diminished. This has mostly to do with the enactment of some regulatory instruments such as the National Social Housing Plan, that is part of the 133/2008 “Financial Law” and management tools as integrated plans and urban equalization. Thanks to that, it has been possible to exceed the historical limits connected to the building areas acquisition, focusing new partnership between public policy maker and private stakeholder. However this brand new perspective is part of a context where the economic background that sustained the public intervention seems to be deeply changed, because of the new administrative organization, caused by the introduction of fiscal federalism – that significantly decreased economic resources to the local governments – and, at the same time, by reason of post-crisis real estate dynamics, which doesn’t support the general government budget, imposing charges and taxes . Crisis diminished public investment resources but simultaneously increased social housing needs by reason of disintegration of the middle class, that looks more and more for public housing, unable to support the cost of acquisition – and because of new kinds of social diseases: immigration, unemployment, divorced and jobless people and the elderly single people. This gap between public supply and demand is at the moment the main problem in public policies and it can only be exceeded assigning new roles to parties with the widespread use of established tools such as project financing, to finally and effectively transform public institution from financial backer into planner. The purpose of this essay is to highlight new possibilities of city planning implementation as well as they appear in the matched framework of regulatory instruments combining instruments of urban planning and economic dynamics.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
