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The more the regenerative projects and experiments of paths of epopulation of the left-behind territories and mountainous areas advance, the more a fact emerges forcefully: the concrete difficulty of welcoming and accommodating, transforming them into inhabitants, the various people who today, in Italy, seem to express a growing demand for mountains.
This finding that emerges from the experiences taking place in the territories severely contradicts what has always been a powerful discursive element in favor of regeneration projects in left-behind territories: the existence of a considerable housing stock that is highly available and favorable - by quantitative size, economic value, etc. - for implementing revitalization and repopulation policies.
Instead, in Italy, all experiences in the field show how the conditions of technological and qualitative backwardness of the existing stock the difficulties in finding housing units on the rental market make this issue today a priority concerning policies on left-behind territories in recent years, traditionally focused on the triad health, schooling, mobility.
Many realities in the Alps and Apennines where regeneration pathways are underway show attempts to build neo-inhabitable conditions through the "autarkic" construction of housing and welfare services for neo- population. However, it is clear that these virtuous actions characterized by "do it yourself" are not sufficient to build real and effective widespread action to support potential neo-housing processes.
Our research is positioned within this challenging framework. It aims to address issues regarding housing possibilities and models suitable for repopulation dynamics, both in terms of policies and projects for sustainable rents and possible public action at the local and national scale for the activation of projects that take into account at the same time housing, employment and access to culture and community-making needs.
| Keywords | left-behind territories; habitability; repopulation |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
