From the beginning of the nineties non-profit actors, public agencies and private actors have filled the gap existing in the national real estate market between public and private building and economically weak people with the own activity in a more and more institutionalised way. Trying to exceed the category of emergency, these best practices experience repeatable models of effective inhabited and social integration. They try to place the foundations of a new relational inhabited model.

Maria Golinelli, in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 73/2004, pp. , DOI: