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

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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

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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

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District 3 San Paolo, Cenisia, Pozzo Strada,
Cit Türin
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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.
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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).
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District 3 some data (part 1)
Population (2004)
14,4 of the total
22,6 of the total
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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
  porters 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.

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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 balanced
enclave 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,
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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
porters 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, )
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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
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Thank you!