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Social Housing and Social Innovation: Remarks for Future Policies and Practices

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Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing

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In the conclusions the author summarises the various elements of the Italian context and of the case study, giving some reflections regarding social housing in Italy and its future perspectives. The austerity policy has strong and immediate effects on the current situation and its evolution. The concept of social innovation is also discussed considering the international debate and its recent applications to welfare innovations (European research projects).

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Notes

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    Instead, the main metropolis in the North-West of Italy, Milan, has about 60,000 dwellings and 1.3 million citizens. The size of subsidised housing also influences its management in terms of financial resources to maintain it, managerial capabilities, social services to support the inhabitants and avoid social polarisation and social exclusion.

  2. 2.

    The Regional Administration, which promotes and finances policies and initiatives, the ethical investors, who have become complementary actors in the implementation of these strategies and, the not-for-profit sector, which manages the projects. All stakeholders are important when defining, implementing and fostering strategies and initiatives.

  3. 3.

    For instance, in another Italian region, Lombardy Regional Administration is currently reforming social housing sector and its policies through a law proposal. The proposal is to privatise the sector, changing also its name in “housing services”.

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    These aspects confirm the statements presented in the IMPROVE EU project about local social innovation and welfare state restructuring (Oosterlynck et al. 2015a, b).

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Caruso, N. (2017). Social Housing and Social Innovation: Remarks for Future Policies and Practices. In: Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41890-2_4

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