Print Email Facebook Twitter Social housing provision in the Italian region of Lombardy: Between market, state and community Title Social housing provision in the Italian region of Lombardy: Between market, state and community Author Urbani, S. Van Bortel, G.A. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department VWM Date 2009-12-31 Abstract This paper describes social housing developments in Lombardy, one of the most affluent regions in the Italy. Housing policy in Italy is mainly the responsibility of the Regions. We discuss the challenges of social housing provision and the interplay between market, state, community and third sector actors to provide affordable homes. However, social housing in Lombardy has changed from simply providing adequate amounts of affordable family housing into a more complex task to create cohesive local communities and provide tailored housing services for an increasingly diverse public, with new household forms and changes in lifestyles. The paper presents initiatives in Lombardy to address these challenges by bringing together actors from very different backgrounds. Due to the limited amount of public resources available, social housing provision in Lombardy is very dependant on initiatives and resources from other sectors and on tools to organize these ventures, like public-private partnerships. This paper gives a detailed description of such a tool: the creation of social housing property funds. These funds are hybrid initiatives often involving civil society foundations with roots in banking, non-profit management organisations, public bodies, cooperatives and private developers. Subject social housingItalyLombardygovernancereal estate funds,banking foundations To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:89056505-dfa1-4ef6-ad96-acace876ed99 Publisher Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Source ENHR 09 PRAGUE: Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation, 28 June - 1 July 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2009 The Author(s) Files PDF 235943.pdf 474.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:89056505-dfa1-4ef6-ad96-acace876ed99/datastream/OBJ/view