Papers by Fabio Colombo
Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, 2017
UISP - Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti, 2019
Contributo scritto per UISP nazionale all'interno della pubblicazione di chiusura del progetto na... more Contributo scritto per UISP nazionale all'interno della pubblicazione di chiusura del progetto nazionale Open Space, per il coinvolgimento di giovani NEET in attività sportive.
Il contributo offre una panoramica sull'universo NEET: cosa significa NEET, come si diventa NEET, le conseguenze dell'essere NEET sui diversi aspetti della vita, quanti sono i giovani NEET in Italia e in Europa, quali sono le politiche e gli interventi che si possono mettere in campo per fronteggiare la questione.
La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 2019
A partire da una ricognizione della letteratura su innovazione sociale e trasformazioni della gov... more A partire da una ricognizione della letteratura su innovazione sociale e trasformazioni della governance, l’articolo evidenzia il rapporto – a tratti conflittuale – fra dinamiche di innovazione e istituzioni del welfare. La letteratura di riferimento non raramente vede, infatti, queste ultime come un ostacolo a processi di innovazione. Le istituzioni del welfare hanno e possono avere, tuttavia, un ruolo sia di promozione che di supporto ai processi di innovazione sociale, mentre le virtù della società civile vanno situate nel contesto istituzionale in cui agiscono.
L’accesso alla casa in Italia è particolarmente complicato per chi “parte da zero”, come i giovan... more L’accesso alla casa in Italia è particolarmente complicato per chi “parte da zero”, come i giovani e gli immigrati, a maggior ragione se presenti da poco nel paese come i richiedenti asilo e titolari di protezione internazionale in uscita dai progetti di prima e seconda accoglienza nel sistema SPRAR o dai CAS. Il sistema abitativo italiano è infatti caratterizzato da un alto tasso di abitazioni in proprietà, una bassa quota di edilizia pubblica, un basso livello di protezione sociale nel mercato in affitto, un importante ruolo della famiglia nella produzione e riproduzione sociale dell’accesso alla casa. Tutte caratteristiche che – unite all’esistenza di discriminazioni nel mercato abitativo - rappresentano un fattore di esclusione per chi non ha una famiglia da cui ereditare l’accesso alla casa o non ha reddito sufficiente, o sufficientemente stabile, per poter accedere a un mutuo o pagare un affitto dando le garanzie richieste. Dopo aver approfondito questo quadro di sfondo, il paper presenta alcune iniziative promosse e gestite da enti pubblici e/o enti del terzo settore per facilitare l’autonomia abitativa di richiedenti asilo e titolari di protezione internazionale in Italia: accoglienza in famiglia, cohousing e altre iniziative di housing sociale. Vengono poi presentate nelle conclusioni alcuni possibili insegnamenti che si possono trarre dall’analisi di queste iniziative.
JOURNAL FÜR ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK , 2017
Social innovation rises and grows within specific social and institutional conditions and relatio... more Social innovation rises and grows within specific social and institutional conditions and relations, being at once an outcome and a driver of change of the contexts in which it is embedded. Tis paper sheds light on these processes, by studying the relationship between social innovation and local welfare configurations in the development of the same innovative practice, the Housing First model to contrast homelessness, in two different European cities: Bologna (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden). Te comparison allows us to highlight how the two local innovative practices, inspired by the same global model, have developed differently in these contexts and how they have adapted to the conditions posed by local welfare and housing configurations.
Homelessness is a typically urban phenomenon, and it is usually managed at the local level, even ... more Homelessness is a typically urban phenomenon, and it is usually managed at the local level, even when supra-local strategies, policies and funding are present. This tendency towards localization on the one hand can facilitate the emergence of innovative practices and a better adaptation of policies to local conditions, problems and resources; on the other hand, it can hinder the processes of upscaling of social innovation and reinforce place-based differences.
Despite the label, the traditional social intervention in favour of “home-less” people gives a priority to the social and health support rather than to the need of a house. It is based on the so-called staircase model, whose underpinning logic is that homeless people are expected to qualify for housing after having proved to be ready for it. For this reason they are placed in different forms of shelters and other collective, temporary and supervised accommodations.
The Housing First approach overturns this logic and considers housing stability as the prerequisite to promote health and mental well-being, support social inclusion and participation and facilitate the access to labour market. A private stable accommodation replaces collective temporary shelters, thus reducing the risk of concentration of poverty and problems.
Housing First model has therefore a potentially high impact on an “ideal city” where everyone can find an adequate housing solution, and where housing stability is a prime instrument for social inclusion and participation. It was created in New York in 1992 and since then it is spreading to the rest of America and in Europe, adapted on the basis of different national and local conditions and policy traditions, also because of its cost-effectiveness.
Analysing two projects inspired to the Housing First model in Bologna (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden), through qualitative case-studies conducted within the European research project
“ImPRovE: Poverty, Social Policy and Innovation”, we aim to highlight how they interact with the local context and policies, and how they deal with the issue of mainstreaming social innovation.
Comparing the two case-studies, the paper aims at answering to the following questions:
- How and why a local practice conceived in the United States has transformed into an international model and how is it implemented in two different European cities?
- What are the conditions and factors that can foster or hinder the process of upscaling and/or mainstreaming of local social innovation?
- How does the urban context influence and/or become an issue within the two projects?
- What is the relationship between Housing First and the spatial and urban dimension?
Conference Presentations by Fabio Colombo
Housing First (HF) is a model of intervention on homelessness established in New York City in 199... more Housing First (HF) is a model of intervention on homelessness established in New York City in 1992. It is growing and spreading in US and Europe and is heavily challenging the traditional staircase approach, whose underpinning logic is that homeless people are expected to qualify for housing after having proved to be ready for it. The HF approach overturns this logic and considers housing stability as the prerequisite to promote health and mental wellbeing, support social inclusion and participation and facilitate the access to labour market. In the first part of the paper, we provide an historical overview on Housing First as a social innovation, since its genesis to its institutionalisation in the United States, and diffusion in Europe. In the second part, we describe and compare six local initiatives implementing the HF model in Bologna (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Ghent (Belgium), London (UK), Stockholm (Sweden), and Vienna (Austria). We analyse how the six socially innovative initiatives, even being inspired by the same global model, are deeply shaped by the local socio-institutional contexts where they are embedded. We then provide an insight into governance assets and processes of rising and diffusion of social innovation both at the local and supra-local level. Finally, we identify three main axes through which Housing First is transforming, or not, from a local social innovation to a broader policy strategy: local consolidation, horizontal contamination, and vertical lobbying.
Book Chapters by Fabio Colombo
Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion A Critical Appraisal Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov, 2020
Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion A Critical Appraisal Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov, 2020
Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion. A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov, 2020
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Papers by Fabio Colombo
Il contributo offre una panoramica sull'universo NEET: cosa significa NEET, come si diventa NEET, le conseguenze dell'essere NEET sui diversi aspetti della vita, quanti sono i giovani NEET in Italia e in Europa, quali sono le politiche e gli interventi che si possono mettere in campo per fronteggiare la questione.
Despite the label, the traditional social intervention in favour of “home-less” people gives a priority to the social and health support rather than to the need of a house. It is based on the so-called staircase model, whose underpinning logic is that homeless people are expected to qualify for housing after having proved to be ready for it. For this reason they are placed in different forms of shelters and other collective, temporary and supervised accommodations.
The Housing First approach overturns this logic and considers housing stability as the prerequisite to promote health and mental well-being, support social inclusion and participation and facilitate the access to labour market. A private stable accommodation replaces collective temporary shelters, thus reducing the risk of concentration of poverty and problems.
Housing First model has therefore a potentially high impact on an “ideal city” where everyone can find an adequate housing solution, and where housing stability is a prime instrument for social inclusion and participation. It was created in New York in 1992 and since then it is spreading to the rest of America and in Europe, adapted on the basis of different national and local conditions and policy traditions, also because of its cost-effectiveness.
Analysing two projects inspired to the Housing First model in Bologna (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden), through qualitative case-studies conducted within the European research project
“ImPRovE: Poverty, Social Policy and Innovation”, we aim to highlight how they interact with the local context and policies, and how they deal with the issue of mainstreaming social innovation.
Comparing the two case-studies, the paper aims at answering to the following questions:
- How and why a local practice conceived in the United States has transformed into an international model and how is it implemented in two different European cities?
- What are the conditions and factors that can foster or hinder the process of upscaling and/or mainstreaming of local social innovation?
- How does the urban context influence and/or become an issue within the two projects?
- What is the relationship between Housing First and the spatial and urban dimension?
Conference Presentations by Fabio Colombo
Book Chapters by Fabio Colombo
Il contributo offre una panoramica sull'universo NEET: cosa significa NEET, come si diventa NEET, le conseguenze dell'essere NEET sui diversi aspetti della vita, quanti sono i giovani NEET in Italia e in Europa, quali sono le politiche e gli interventi che si possono mettere in campo per fronteggiare la questione.
Despite the label, the traditional social intervention in favour of “home-less” people gives a priority to the social and health support rather than to the need of a house. It is based on the so-called staircase model, whose underpinning logic is that homeless people are expected to qualify for housing after having proved to be ready for it. For this reason they are placed in different forms of shelters and other collective, temporary and supervised accommodations.
The Housing First approach overturns this logic and considers housing stability as the prerequisite to promote health and mental well-being, support social inclusion and participation and facilitate the access to labour market. A private stable accommodation replaces collective temporary shelters, thus reducing the risk of concentration of poverty and problems.
Housing First model has therefore a potentially high impact on an “ideal city” where everyone can find an adequate housing solution, and where housing stability is a prime instrument for social inclusion and participation. It was created in New York in 1992 and since then it is spreading to the rest of America and in Europe, adapted on the basis of different national and local conditions and policy traditions, also because of its cost-effectiveness.
Analysing two projects inspired to the Housing First model in Bologna (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden), through qualitative case-studies conducted within the European research project
“ImPRovE: Poverty, Social Policy and Innovation”, we aim to highlight how they interact with the local context and policies, and how they deal with the issue of mainstreaming social innovation.
Comparing the two case-studies, the paper aims at answering to the following questions:
- How and why a local practice conceived in the United States has transformed into an international model and how is it implemented in two different European cities?
- What are the conditions and factors that can foster or hinder the process of upscaling and/or mainstreaming of local social innovation?
- How does the urban context influence and/or become an issue within the two projects?
- What is the relationship between Housing First and the spatial and urban dimension?