Le gestione dell’Edilizia Residenziale Pubblica in Toscana: attori e performance

The house is a fun- damental element influencing the access to other rights and to a decorous life, consequently the public housing sector has a decisive role in wellbeing of a nation. The entities involved in public housing management are varied with different roles and strategies. The aim of this article is to study the economic and social performance of public housing in Tuscany, comparing them with the national situation. The Tuscany has always been at the forefront of management and it has a particular structure of public hous- ing based on two levels. The first level consists in a political board (LODE), which combines the Tuscany Provinces; while the second level is composed of eleven companies with the legal form of capital company. The study of economic-financial performance has been achieved by analyzing the assets of the companies compared to the national ones. Social outcomes have been analyzed by examining the companies’ response to the Tuscan community’s housing needs. The research highlights that national economic per- formance and financial results are negative, but the Tuscany public housing sector shows quite good performance as their financial risk is lower than the national average. The main difficulties are related to covering costs with revenues: costs are constantly de- creasing while revenues don’t reflect inflation. However, also Tuscany public housing sector is not effective as it has many prob- lems with achieving social goals: at present nearly 18,000 families are waiting for a social house.