Abstract
Social housing models, which had began to develop during the last century, for their only objective had a need to overcome the housing problems of socially vulnerable categories. However, numerous studies have shown that these social categories, because of their low social status, are highly susceptible to various psychological and sociological problems. On the other hand a low level of quality, which was common for social housing dwellings, has further aggravated these problems by initiating trouble behaviours among tenants, affecting social exclusion and segregation. Contemporary social housing models are therefore conceptualized in a way to provide a positive psycho-sociological impact on their tenants. Therefore the planning approach in social housing should be such to: support important functions in daily life routines; promote tolerance and cooperation; influence on a sense of social order and belonging; affect the socialization of the tenant and their integration into the wider community; and improve social cohesion. Analysis of the influential location parameters of immediate and wider social housing environment strive to define the ones relevant to the life quality of social housing tenants and therefore influence on the sustainability of social housing model.
Highlights
The long-standing building tradition of the social housing complex, conceived on the idea of mass industrial construction, had resulted in spatial and social segregation, which further generated the various problems within these complexes
Cooperation, sense of social order and belonging, these models should influence positively of the social cohesion in the social housing complexes and wider residential surrounding. As tenants of these complexes are various socially vulnerable groups, which are more likely to spent their free time within the local residential area, the main focus of the social housing models’ should be to find adequate spatial housing solutions that would have the potential to contribute to the social inclusion of the tenants and the level of social cohesion in the housing community
1) They need to be adequately positioned within the existing urban matrix and in the immediate vicinity of the necessary service facilities. If this is not the case, during the process of social housing complex planning, it is essential to anticipate the introduction of new service facilities, either by integrating them into social housing dwellings, or adapting the surrounding space for that purpose
Summary
The long-standing building tradition of the social housing complex, conceived on the idea of mass industrial construction, had resulted in spatial and social segregation, which further generated the various problems within these complexes. Some authors believe that precise urban and architectural approach in the construction of social housing complex had originated high level of different behaviour problems within these complexes (Jacobs, 1961; Newman, 1970; Petrović, 2004; Bolt, 2009), such as: early school abandoning, alcohol and drugs abuse, bullying and etc. Such housing environment further affected the population of these complexes, which resulted with a complete inefficiency of these housing models. In urban planning approach of the new social housing models the emphasis must not be placed only on the quality of housing within those dwellings; on contrary the overall housing quality of social housing models has to be viewed as well through the sociological impact that these complexes have on the individual wellbeing and on society in general
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