Social Housing in Italy: Cultural Continuity, Social Change and Future Scenarios

The aim of this paper is to make a reconnaissance of the main aspects and developments of Social Housing system in Italy, within its hereditary transitions, as in its current trends, in order to identify actors, processes and interventions where it is nevertheless possible an anthropological, cultural and social legitimacy of the term centrality of the person. This concept is proposed through a multidimensional modelling of Social Housing. This work has also the objective of constructing future scenarios on the Social Housing system by using experts viewpoints and apply them as a planning tool and in strategic management. Structural analysis allows the construction of a simplified image of the system and, in particular, permits the identification of the variables that are essential to the system's evolution. Once defined some future scenarios, the public actor can act in various ways, in order to achieve the desirable scenario or to avoid the most problematic one. In this framework, it becomes essential to support public actors in making strategic choices and, therefore, we propose a Decision Support System (DSS) for Social Housing. Given that taking decisions for such a complex system involves the evaluation of several alternatives, using diverse criteria, in the construction of the DSS a useful tool is that of the multicriteria analysis, which helps to rationalize the choice between several alternative and takes into account the preferences of different actors involved in the decision-making process.