Multiannual Public Intervention Programs for Student Housing and Urban Regeneration

The growing number of university enrolments and the increase in student mobility have led to a considerable increase in the demand for accommodation in the member states of the European Union over the last twenty years. Many countries have therefore undertaken policies aimed at building university accommodation and residences, through funding plans involving public and private entities. In Italy, Law no. 338/00 is a first example of an organic multi-year plane that provides state co-financing for measures aimed at building new university student accommodation and residences, also through the extraordinary maintenance, restructuring and purchase of buildings already destined or to be destined for the specific function. The importance of the regulation is due, among others, to its experimental character, the definition of dimensional standards and the importance given precisely to the recovery of disused existing building stock.