Applicability of Methodological Approaches and Tools for Detecting Preferences in Housing Choice

The ongoing digital transition profoundly affects people's habits and customs by dislodging them from the place where they have always resided and determining a new demand for housing mobility. The new demand is centered on the choice, conscious and commensurate with one's needs and availability, of the place to live. This phenomenon can significantly affect land-use government activity and requires tools, methodologies and models in order to be understood as the “historicist” approach on which municipalities’ planning activities are based is not deemed sufficient. Based on the above, this paper aims to illustrate some initial results of a Project-to of Significant National Interest referred to in the call No. 1409 of 14-9-2022 (PRIN 2022 PNRR) approved by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) entitled “Housing mobility and digital transition. Evaluation tools and technologies for understanding current and future people's living needs, supporting territorial governance and regeneration processes.“ This Research project is configured as a prodromal study and investigation activity for understanding, among demographic phenomena, housing mobility, which signi-ficantly affects urbanization phenomena on which land use and protection, urban regeneration, and the protection and enhancement of agricultural activity. These topics are of great interest to the PNRR.