“Targeted” Model of Social Housing: An Operational Declination of the Break-Even Analysis for Determining Rents

Over the past 30 years, in social housing policies in Europe there has been an increasing involvement of the private sector due to the widespread inability of institutions to guarantee public commensurate to the need. Private real estate operators have been entrusted with the task of social housing; the public intervention has been limited to rent control (rent capping). This paper presents the results of a Reresearch commissioned by the National Association of Building Constructors (ANCE), Lazio section, with the aim of researching the conditions of economic-co-financial feasibility, expressed in terms of rents, of a social housing intervention, in the Lazio Region so that it could be carried out by private real estate operators. The results obtained from the experimentation are also analyzed in relation to their sustainability for the so-called “gray band” of the population, to which social housing is aimed.