Mariani, FabioBocchino, AndreaAndreaBocchino2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142021https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/25429Social housing interventions are generally costly, affect many families and are long lasting. Through public housing, the community is willing to bear the cost to offer better living conditions to those that otherwise could not afford them, but which is the best way to intervene? This document tries to analyse whether social housing fosters criminal presence in the area of intervention and what are the critical elements that make these projects fail, if they do. To assess the causal link, a difference in difference approach will be applied to the natural experiment consisting in the residential reconstruction in the aftermath of the 1980 Iripinia earthquake, which devastated a substantially large area of Southern Italy. Our work will provide evidence that treated municipalities experienced an increase in criminal presence. Furthermore, expanding the economic literature of crime analysis, we will prove that social housing projects impact also bordering municipalities. We show that the magnitude of influence goes beyond the borders of the treated municipalities, hence increasing the relevance of such policy. Furthemore, we demonstrate that building new neighborhoods closer among them creating ghettoes and locating such conurbations far from the social and economic center of the community will increase criminal presence.social housingpublic housingdifference in differencescrimeeconomic analysis of crimeIrpinia earthquakeHappy Lazaruses: when social housing can destroy livestext::thesis::master thesisthesis:31736