S242508B / Living the Divide: More Than a Roof - U10

About this episode

This episode explores the implications of treating housing as a residual category through interviews with researchers and residents in Milan's public housing districts.

What happens when housing stops being treated as a right and becomes a residual category—something to manage, not invest in? In this episode, we return to one of Milan’s largest public housing districts to examine the material and institutional neglect shaping daily life. Through interviews with researchers and residents, we uncover the long retreat of public responsibility, the internal fractures within social housing, and the everyday forms of resistance and care that emerge in response.

Topics covered

• housing rights
• public housing
• social responsibility
• community resistance
• urban neglect

Keywords

• housing
• public responsibility
• social housing
• community care
• urban issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: POLI.RADIO

Places: Milan

More episodes of Urbinary

• S252607 - Publicness, in teoria · June 12, 2026 · 37 min
• S252606 / Below the Surface: Power, Groundwater, and BNBOs in Denmark · June 5, 2026 · 29 min
• S252605 / Gating the Lagoon: The conflictual decision-making process of MoSe · June 3, 2026 · 33 min
• S252604 / Flows of Power: How water treaties produce water scarcity · May 28, 2026 · 38 min
• S252603B / Public space, public power: How protest reshapes a city - U10 · March 11, 2026 · 22 min
• S252603A / Public space and protest power. From Collapse to Collective: Student Protest in Serbia - U10 · March 4, 2026 · 28 min