Social housing in via Cardinal Capranica

Innovative Plan for Housing Quality (Mission 5 Component 2, Investment 6)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides for the development of new public residential buildings to address housing challenges, especially focusing on existing public assets and revitalizing degraded areas. The emphasis is on green innovation and sustainability. 

The investment consists of two main strategies, both executed without using new land:

• Upgrading and expanding social housing, enhancing urban quality, improving accessibility and safety, addressing housing shortages, and boosting environmental quality. This involves employing innovative models and tools for urban management, inclusion, and well-being.
• Targeted initiatives on public residential buildings with significant strategic impact nationally. The selection of funding proposals will be based on indicators that assess the environmental, social, cultural, urban-territorial, economic-financial, and technological-processual impacts of the projects.

The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 1.4 billion.

The project “Social housing in via Cardinal Capranica” is part of this investment.

The project involves the construction of a public residential, social housing and cohousing complex with accommodation to be allocated to temporary assignments on the basis of the rotation principle. The demolition of the existing school building, which is in a state of abandonment and decay, is necessary, taking note of the impossibility of recovering it given the significant difficulties in adapting to the current security systems. This project takes into account the principle of reducing land consumption, a GLA of 5,813 square meters is expected (close to that of the existing building equal to 5,216 square meters) and a covered surface area of 2,140 square meters, significantly reduced compared to that occupied by the building to be demolished equal to 3,245 square meters.

The ground floor will be used for public services such as a senior center, a toy library, a neighborhood laboratory/observatory, a space for carrying out entertainment activities and a center for cultural activities.

For the uncovered part of the area, the creation of public car parks, greenery and open spaces is planned, to encourage socialization processes and establish a direct relationship between the living space and that of the relevant public space, as well as the creation of a system of public pedestrian paths in the adjacent greenery. In addition, the project includes the construction of a cycle path that connects the area to the subway stop, the construction of a section of street lighting which is currently absent, as well as the paving of a road section, currently dead-end, which connects to the consular road.

The project is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 14 million.

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