The multidimensionality of social housing

Journal title PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’
Author/s Katiuscia Greganti
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2012/2
Language Italian Pages 10 P. 71-80 File size 353 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSC2012-002007
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Housing conditions are nowadays influenced by an increasing variety of social, demographic and economic dynamics which impact on specific social categories. On one hand, it’s necessary to match all the performance benchmarks and to consider all the different aspects which contribute to provide sustainable housing, on the other hand, in order to work on social housing through financial supports it’s crucial to take into account multidimensionality and complexity of the actions making process, i.e. to adopt an action model which brings together planning and implementing stages. Starting from this assumption, from 2006 the Housing Program of Compagnia di San Paolo manages actions and funding on housing through counseling and co-planning work done by a team of experts. This article intends to explain actions and procedures developed over the time to consider organizations which submit funding requests as active actors of counseling and co-planning. This is a circular process which increases degree of empowerment not only of organizations which benefit of counseling but also of the team of Housing Program itself.

Keywords: Social housing, empowerment, housing difficulties

  1. Baroni M.R. (1998). Psicologia ambientale. Bologna: Il Mulino.
  2. Cantor N., Norem J.K., Niendenthal P.M., Langston C.A., Brower A.M. (1987). Life Tasks, Self-concept Ideals, and Cognitive Strategies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53: 1178-1191
  3. Castel R. (1991). De l’Indigence à l’Exclusion: la Désaffiliation. In: J. Donzelot (ed.) Face à l’Exclusion. Le Modèle Français. Paris: Esprit
  4. Gruber J., Trickett E.J. (1987). Can we empower others? The paradox of empowerment in the governing of an alternative public school. America Journal of Community Psychology, 15: 353-371
  5. Guidicini P., Pieretti P. (1988). I volti della povertà urbana. Milano: Franco Angeli.
  6. Knowles M.S. (1975). Self-directed Learning: A Guide for Learness & Teachers. New York: Cambridge Books
  7. Lewin K. (1948). Resolving Social Conflitcs. New York: Harper & Brothers. Trad. it. I conflitti sociali. Saggi di dinamica di gruppo. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1972
  8. Markus H., Nurius P. (1986). Possible Selves. American Psychologist, 41: 954-969
  9. Micheletti P., Faregna M. (2011). AAA Giovane precario cerca casa” Ricerca sull’emergenza abitativa a Torino. Ricerca condotta Sicet.
  10. Piccardo C. (1995). Empowerment, Strategie di sviluppo organizzativo centrate sulla persona. Milano: Raffaello Cortina
  11. Reason P., Bradbury H. (2001). Introduction, inquiry e participation in search of a world worthy of human aspiration. In: P. Reason, H. Bradbury (eds.), The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. London: Sage
  12. Ricci R. (1997). Povertà abitativa in Italia, 1989-1993, Collana della Commissione sulla povertà e l’emarginazione sociale in Italia, Istituto Poligrafico della Zecca dello Stato
  13. Rowles G. (1983). Place and Personal Identity in Old Age: Observation from Appalachial. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 3: 57-83
  14. Sixsmith J. (1986). The Meaning of Home: An Exploratory Study of Environmental Experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 6: 281-298
  15. Tosi A. (1994). Abitanti. Le nuove strategie dell’azione abitativa. Bologna: Il Mulino
  16. Vranken J. (1995). Modelling in Social Sciences and Models on Social Exclusion and Social Integration. Social indicators: Problematic issues. Bruxelles: European Commission.
  17. Whelan B.J., Whelan C.T. (1995). In What Sense is Poverty Multidimensional? In: G. Room (ed.), Beyond the Threshold: The Measurement and Analysis of Social Exclusion. Bristol: The Policy Press

Katiuscia Greganti, La multidimensionalità dell’housing sociale in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 2/2012, pp 71-80, DOI: 10.3280/PSC2012-002007