Rigenerazione urbana e dignità abitativa. Il progetto Capacity a Messina

Regarding the issue of public policies for the management of housing problems, there is a gradual shift from traditional approaches centred on the provision of new housing on vacant land to the most recent ones based on the search for solutions that present specific projects in various urban contexts often difficult to borrow elsewhere. These solutions, although mainly characterized on the organizational and social relational side, allow to explore, also in the physical dimension, new quality of living spaces in terms of urban ecological sustainability with differentiated construction time. In particularly degraded social situations, urban regeneration policies are increasingly called upon to play a decisive role. The contribution examines the results of the integrated project Capacity, which covers several areas of action of two slums where hundreds of families lived below the poverty line. Capacity is configured as an integrated program in which the effective implementation of the right to housing of the slum, as well as having positively characterized the process of starting up the legal dwelling and having contributed to the development of trust capital for the continuity of the capacity process started and continued over time, can also benefit spatialized policies of urban regeneration. The need to address the complexity of the government of the transformations of the territory in the challenge of environmental transition involves the testing of new complex instruments in which there are also urban planning processes that can be effective compared to direct actions in the social but in a much longer time horizon and in conditions of much greater uncertainty.