Efficiency, Fairness and Sustainability in Social Housing Policy and Projects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 59418
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Interests: sustainable economic development; real estate valuation; real estate market; environmental economics; environmental impact assessment; urban sustainability; simulation and evaluation models for planning and urban development; territorial and environmental public policies; building and district energy efficiency; financial analysis; financial economics; urban economics; econometrics; decision support systems; multicriteria analysis and evaluation; energy poverty; energy community
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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
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