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TORINO. SOCIAL HOUSING AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN DISTRICT 3 L. Avedano, M. Santangelo

This study focuses on Torino District 3, analyzing the impact of social housing on the quality of life and health of the community. The objectives include resident empowerment, developing a sense of belonging, and improving overall quality of life. The expected outcomes include analyzing the ongoing process, monitoring development of actions, and integrating different local projects. The study aims to define a pilot action transferable to other city districts or EU cities.

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TORINO. SOCIAL HOUSING AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN DISTRICT 3 L. Avedano, M. Santangelo

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  1. TORINO. SOCIAL HOUSING AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN DISTRICT 3 L. Avedano, M. Santangelo 2nd Transnational Workshop Budapest, 28 - 30 September 2006

  2. Why this area The District 3 is a territory where there are: • no “visible” conflicts among communities • quality of life and life expectations are in the city/national average • there are several “small” local development actions • the City Council wants to look at a “normal” area through the glasses of the integrated approach

  3. Objectives • work on a procedure and show a process starting from the very beginning • establish a local board of stakeholders • residents’ empowerment especially migrants and women • develop a sense of belonging • improve the quality of life and health of the community in its whole

  4. Expected outcomes • to analyse the on going process • to monitor the development of the actions • to compare the procedures with other practices developed in other cities • to integrate different local projects/actions • to define a pilot action transferable to other city districts or other Eu cities

  5. District 3: San Paolo, Cenisia, Pozzo Strada, Cit Türin

  6. District 3: some info (part 1) The District 3 owe its name (San Paolo, Cenisia, Pozzo Strada, Cit Türin) to four neighbourhoods that have been integrated in one administrative area. This area has been known as one of the working class district of the city, but is currently undertaking a series of physical and infrastructural transformations.

  7. District 3: some info (part 2) The District 3 is somehow changing its identity, while preserving its specificities. It maintains, in part, its working class characteristics and, in the same time, it redefines its identity in a more complex and metropolitan way (in this area, for instance, two modern art foundations and huge industrial derelict sites that are redeveloped in housing estates for medium-high income buyers).

  8. District 3: some data (part 1) Population (2004) 14,4% of the total 22,6% of the total

  9. District 3: some data (part 2) On population: This is the most densely populated area in the city 14.000 inhabitants per km2 It has a smaller birth rate than the whole City 8‰ (8,2 ‰ in the City) Life expectancy is quite high 82.1 years for women, 76.8 for men One third of the population was born in other Italian regions 34,2% Of which the majority comes from Southern Italy 71,5%

  10. District 3: some data (part 3) On population: There is a relatively small number of foreigners 7.841 in 2003, 6% of the pop. Whose country of origin is often extra-EU 1.Romania, 2. Morocco, 3. Peru Foreign citizens live above all in a smaller area in the Northern part of the District Regarding young foreigners: 1. Morocco 2. Romania 3. Peru

  11. District 3: some data (part 4) On working: In an old working class area, most of the employed are in the services sector (employee or small entrepreneur) 47,9% in the services sector (44,4% in the City) Yet, one third of the work force is still in the industry sector 33,6% There is a lower unemployment rate than in the rest of the City 3,8% (4,2% in the whole City)

  12. District 3: some data (part 5) On health (some issues): There is a relatively small number of drug addicts than in the rest of the City 1,8% of the male population, 0,4% of the female pop. There is a very small number of alcohol addicts 0,01% of the pop. There is worryingly high rate of cancer diagnosis than in the rest of the Piedmont Region No official data available, but cancer is the first death cause for male deceases and the second for female deceases

  13. District 3: some data (part 6) On health (foreign women): ¼ of Voluntary pregnancy interruptions (IVG) in Piedmont, in 2001, are of foreign women Foreign women represent 40% of the women that ask for family counselling in public offices

  14. District 3: some data (part 7) • On health (a research): • In 2003 a research has tried to find which were the main causes of worrying for the District 3 inhabitants. This is the synthetic result. • “How much are you worried about: Suffering for a crime  sometimes Loosing home  almost never Loosing the job  almost never Loosing relatives and friends support  almost never Being seriously ill often Being involved in a terrorist attack  never”

  15. District 3: projects (part 1) • Young Foreigners in the District Schools Observatory: • Following the greater presence of young foreigners in the District school system, an observatory has been created to help facing cultural diversities and to support a network of public and private actors that work in the education field. • The activities refers to: • a yearly report, with updated statistical data and elaborations; • a constant monitoring of the situation in the schools of the District; • a system of laboratories in the schools, aiming at involving the students and at creating a collaborative and shared approach to a multi-cultural society.

  16. District 3: projects (part 2) Health Cities: A World Health Organisation project whose aim is to favour the definition of local socially sustainable health plan. This imply the common understanding of a wide definition of healthy city and the adoption of city profile that describe the urban area living conditions according to a complex set of dimensions (social, economic, demographic, strictly sanitary, …). The District 3 has delivered a profile in 2004 and is programming its Health Plan.

  17. District 3: projects (part 3) Latent Potential. Realising the potential of older women in the labour market: A recently started project on engaging and empowering older women with low formal skill to enter the labour market. The project will develop pilot actions of reintegration and learning experiences and, in District 3, it will be focused on foreign women.

  18. District 3: the case study project (1/3) • Participated local development in District 3 public housing estate: • The project focus on the regeneration of an old porter’s lodge in the public housing estate. This physical objective representing the tangible result of a wider strategy that can be synthesized in the idea of creating a public space for: • residents’ participation to public actors’ decision process; • the common redefinition of the area identity through the reference to specific resources, problems, characteristics.

  19. District 3: the case study project (2/3) The project regards a public housing estate that does not show evidences of a seriously problematic area, but that can be considered as a place of silent self-segregation. A balancedenclave until when? This is an area in which many ‘categories at risk’ coexist: people with health (mental and physical) diseases, prostituted, elderly, unemployed, drug addicts, foreigners, …

  20. District 3: the case study project (3/3) This is also an area in which there are examples of good practices. Homeless sleeping in cities dormitories have been involved, by one of the associations that take part to the project, in the renovation of the old porter’s lodge into the new local centre. Following this experience, the same association has been asked to manage the public housing estate general maintainance works (gardening, repairings, …)

  21. Which issues Fighting against inequalities stimulating the ‘healthy’ side on each man/woman Improving their quality of life and that of the whole community Focussing on the residents’ empowerment on ethnic minorities in specific Strengthening the networking practices with the local housing agency Connecting different urban scales through policies local policies shape the city collective identity

  22. Thank you!

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