The Increasing Weakness of Housing Mobilizations in Milan

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the ongoing trend of decline of social mobilizations on the housing issue in Milan, Italy. Our exploration starts from the observation of one of the paradoxical traits of the current situation: today, in Milan as in other large Italian urban areas, there is a growing and articulated housing need, increasingly diffused among different social classes (and especially among the most vulnerable groups - migrants, young people, unemployed - whose conditions has significantly worsened since the inception of the economic crisis in 2008). Against this background, however, it has become increasingly apparent that mobilization on housing issues has significantly weakened over the same period.