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AbitaLab
Housing policies in Italy have changed a lot in the last decades. The ways to help and the people who get help are different now. Before, only certain groups were helped with housing, but now many new groups with serious problems, temporary or long-lasting, also need help. These groups include more and more people. The current housing situation in the city of Naples needs new ideas and actions. The city must use different ways to create better housing policies. These policies should give different kinds of help based on what people need. This also means working with social groups, non-profit organizations, and housing cooperatives. The City of Naples is working hard to make short, medium, and long-term plans. These plans aim to reduce the big lack of social housing (like public housing and social housing). The work includes making and managing programs, plans (like the City Plan for Quality Housing), and building new homes or fixing and improving old buildings.
Municipal Plan for the Quality of Living
The Municipal Plan for the Quality of Living is configured as an inter-sectoral strategic device, capable of coordinating urban planning, financial, management and social tools to address housing hardship in an integrated and innovative way, regenerate the urban fabric and promote sustainable and inclusive living models.
Municipal Plan for the Quality of Living
Public urban regeneration programme
Bipiani di Ponticelli
Demolish the existing prefabricated buildings known as “Bipiani”, clean up the area and build 104 new homes along with an eco-park with urban gardens, green spaces and social areas, and a new park-road with footpaths. The project, which will change the image of Ponticelli’s Bipiani, is funded with €35 million from the NRRP and PNC funds; supplemented by €2 million destined for clean-up work in collaboration with the Metropolitan City.
Redevelopment of the Taverna del Ferro settlement
Demolish the two “blocks” and replace them with 28 low-rise, energy-selfsustainable buildings, with public spaces equipped for play and sport, urban gardens and new local services. This is the project of the Municipality of Naples that will change the image of Taverna del Ferro and give its inhabitants a more liveable neighbourhood. The project will cost €106 million and is mainly funded by the NRRP and PON Metro programmes.
Redevelopment of the Vele di Scampia housing estate
Demolish the two “blocks” and replace them with 28 low-rise, energy-selfsustainable buildings, with public spaces equipped for play and sport, urban gardens and new local services. This is the project of the Municipality of Naples that will change the image of Taverna del Ferro and give its inhabitants a more liveable neighbourhood. The project will cost €106 million and is mainly funded by the NRRP and PON Metro programmes.
Co-housing Napoli: Building community through Shared Space and Sustainable Living
AbitaLab Naples: A Hub for Housing Inclusion and Social Innovation
Creation of a Housing Policy Hub in the city of Naples. The project wants to build a multifunctional center that works as:
• a help desk for citizens,
• a meeting and discussion space for key stakeholders
• a place for training, and a permanent lab for participation and co-design on housing policies.
The main goal is to create a permanent urban lab for designing and managing housing policies in an integrated way.
This will be an innovative hub that combines skills, technology, and civic participation to test new inclusive and sustainable housing solutions.
AbitaLab will promote a collaborative and dynamic approach, to improve the quality of life of citizens through effective, transparent, and locally rooted housing policies.
The AbitaLab will have an easily accessible space, located in a symbolic neighborhood (for example, the historic center).
For this reason, some ground-floor spaces have been selected inside the "condominio solidale" (solidarity housing block) in Vico San Nicola a Nilo 5, as shown in blue on the map below.
Naples and the Power of European Networks: Rethinking Housing Through Cohousing and Innovation
Naples, like many European cities, is now facing many urgent and complex housing problems. There are not enough affordable homes, rents are going up, buildings are in bad condition, and there are social inequalities. Climate change and weak community ties in neighborhoods make things worse. These problems cannot be solved by small local actions alone.
To find good, fair, and long-term solutions, the City of Naples needs to look beyond its borders, make alliances, learn from others who are trying new things, and work together on new ideas. Just copying models is not enough.
Working in networks, being part of European groups, and doing cross-country projects is not a luxury—it is a smart and necessary choice.