The project ‘HousINgBO. Permanent Lab on the housing condition of students in Bologna’ is promoted by the City of Bologna and the University of Bologna and coordinated by the Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana with the collaboration of Acer Bologna, ER.GO (Regional Authority for the Right to Higher Education), and contributions from the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna and the Emilia-Romagna Region. The project began in 2019 and entails five main axes of intervention.

The first is a fact-finding investigation about living conditions in collaboration with the student council and student associations. It focuses on the collection of new valuable elements of knowledge in the service of institutional actions.
The second area is measurement aimed at increasing the availability of housing to guarantee the right to study for less-wealthy deserving students through forms of original collaboration with people active in the city’s residential issues.
The third area of intervention is a path to involve interested parties (the most representative local union organizations of tenants and property owners) with the goal of defining a plan to balance the rental market with measures to promote agreed rents for students/young people and public/private investments in the sector of student building.
Within the same framework, another goal of the project is to facilitate the regulation of digital platforms for tourist and short-term rentals.
The last area of intervention regards the promotion of student citizenship through the creation and support of active citizenship projects promoted by the students.