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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: housing affordability; social housing; real estate market; multiple criteria decision aid; urban and real estate economics; economic evaluation of real estate investment projects; econometric models; energy retrofitting projects; urban regeneration; sustainability; environmental economics
Interests: environmental economics; real estate economics; urban economics; urban and land management; urban and land sustainability; cultural resources valuation; Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Datamining; GIS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Affordable housing for low-income households is still a serious social problem, and social housing can support the achievement of the objectives of economic feasibility, fairness, and social sustainability.
Social housing is a complex topic that is interrelated with several fields of study—politics, ethics, economics, environment, architecture, and technology. In other words, social policy, at a national and local level, as well as public and private resources, and innovative tax and credit systems, are all necessary to promote social housing.
Social housing also implies social and urban transformations, and is, consequently, connected to urban planning, urban regeneration projects, real estate market dynamics, and cooperation between public and private stakeholders. In the most advanced proposals, social housing may also include environmental sustainability and technological innovation (energy savings, environmentally friendly materials, etc.), and suggest new models of housing units (co-habitation and the sharing of common spaces).
Furthermore, the decision-making process related to SH policies and projects has to be supported by the evaluation of economic feasibility and assessments on social and environmental sustainability.
This Special Issue of Sustainability offers a platform where all different topics may be presented to recompose the multi-faceted subject within a unified framework.
Prof. Grazia Napoli
Prof. Maria Rosa Trovato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- housing policy
- housing economics
- housing finance
- social housing stock
- real estate market
- economic evaluation of investments
- public private partnership
- multiple criteria decision aid
- subsidies, incentives and benefits
- affordable housing and housing affordability
- social cohesion and management
- fairness and right to the city
- gentrification
- urban regeneration
- social housing investment facility
- income threshold
- energy retrofit in social housing
- sustainable neighbourhoods
- technological innovation
- rent and user costs
- credit conditions and housing price ratio
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Planned Paper 1
Infrastructures and sustainability: the P.R.I.S. of Liguria Region
Paolo Rosasco 1*, Leopoldo Sdino 2
1 University of Genoa; [email protected]
2 Polytechnic of Milan; [email protected]
* Correspondence: [email protected];
Abstract: The economic development of a territory is strongly correlated to its level of infrastructure (railway, roads, etc.); the complexity of this type of works requires careful planning and design that cannot be separated from the assessment of the impacts generated on citizenship affected by the new infrastructures. This study deals with the instrument defined by the Liguria Region for the implementation of infrastructures through the instruments of “Programmi Regionali di Intervento Strategico - P.R.I.S.” (Regional Strategic Intervention Programs) established by the Regional Law n. 39/2007. The aim of the “P.R.I.S.” is to guarantees the social protection of citizens that reside (as owners or tenants) or that they carry out economic activities in real estate incompatible with the construction of the infrastructure, according to the main Italian law (Presidential Decree n. 327/2001) about the expropriation of private real estate for the construction of public works. In particular, the construction of a new link of the A7-A10-A12 motorway sections near the city of Genoa is considered. The infrastructure involves the expropriation of about 100 residential units and the relocation of about 50 production activities; the related P.R.I.S. defined the conditions that allow social cohesion through the recognition of indemnities for the expropriation of the real estate and the compensation of other expenses that the real estate residents have to pay for their relocation. The valuation of the indemnities is developed through a multi-parameter model applicable for the estimation of real estate (residential and productive) at a large-scale (mass appraisal).
Planned Paper 2
Public Housing in the outskirts of Naples: evaluation approaches in regeneration practices
Fabiana Forte1, Pierfrancesco De Paola2
1 Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via San Lorenzo ad Septimum, 81031 Aversa, Italy
2 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Piazzale Vincenzo Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy