Urban recycling for the housing we need: self-renovation in Rome
Rome is a city under intense rental pressure, suffering from a chronic shortage of social and affordable housing. The situation has deteriorated significantly as a result of reforms pursued since the 1990s together with the state’s progressive disengagement from public housing. The state abandoned its financial responsibility for housing in 1998 when the job was transferred to the Italian regions. Three years later, a process was started known as cartolarizzazione, which enfo