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Two basic types of conflict were known in the past: the ones related to labour rights and the ones related to political rights. The first refers to conflicts concerning the work relationship (basically retribution) and the second to “government policies” on specific issues (e.g. “housing”, “education”). However, from the 1960s onwards this precedent was disrupted by the eruption of “local” conflicts, which diverged from the previous ones not only in their objectives, but above all for the emergence of a conflict course that was not always centralistic and for the direct participation of social subjects, both in steering and organising the forms of the conflict, but also in pinpointing the objectives. These conflicts took the name of “social conflict”, “local conflict” or “urban conflict” (Nel·lo 2016; Fregolent 2015). It should be said, as shall be seen, that relationships exist between these local conflicts and the others which we may call general conflicts.
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This cannot be the place for a detailed analysis of these and other policies. For a detailed analysis of their nature, effects and implicit issues, refer to the Second report on cities (2017) and the Third report on cities (2018), produced by Urban@it – Centro nazionale di studi per le politiche urbane, edited by the publisher il Mulino.
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It would be sufficient to analyse the different solutions adopted by many local administrations to increase the housing offer at controlled prices, to understand that the problem is not so much to develop a sort of handbook of good practices, as to apply intelligence and creativity to analysing the specific single situations and finding the most suitable solution.
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Indovina, F. (2021). The City, Local Conflicts and Public Policies. In: Fregolent, L., Nel·lo, O. (eds) Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52754-9_5
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