Segregazione spaziale e condizione abitativa

A recent survey on Milan analyses diffusion, composition and territorial distribution of poverty in Milan, which involves elderly, old lone women in particular, retired people, migrants, lone mothers and children. Housing poverty as persistent phenomenon involves also not marginal social classes. The housing deprivation in Milan takes new and diversified forms, which depend on high dwelling costs and also on uncertainty about this resource in a long period. Dwelling is becoming more and more a scarce resource, necessary for remaining within city's borders. Milan's population is evidently changing, becoming more polarized and homogeneously distributed, leaving its characteristic social mix pattern. Each urban area is following a specific changing path, some affected by gentrification or new settlements for urban élite, others by new migrants' massive arrival. The main social problem is therefore concentration of social disadvantage and its social reproduction in the deprived neighbourhoods. Integrated policies seem to be really necessary to encourage services' availability and socialization and integration possibilities.