The project aims to design and test a replicable collaborative methodology for the investigation of housing dynamics in urban contexts with high diversity, aiming at shedding light on processes, partly still under the radar, of housing fragility and expulsion of vulnerable social groups in urban settings. Through the convergence between the research lines on housing issues of CURALab (Off Campus San Siro) and MetroMosaic (Fondazione Cariplo), the project aims to consolidate co-research tools and approaches by developing a protocol - currently lacking in Italy - for assessing the processes and risks of expulsion of vulnerable social groups from neighborhoods undergoing redevelopment, through the use of a wide range of databases. At the same time, the project is designed to test research as a capacity-building tool for the local actors, who will participate in designing, implementing, analyzing, and disseminating the results. The research will be developed at the local scale in Milan's northeastern neighborhoods (Loreto, Padova, Crescenzago) and structured to have spillovers both at the urban scale and in relation to national and international networks.

Based on the experience of previous projects - the inquiry on housing conditions in the San Siro neighborhood - the project aims to survey housing conditions co-researching with local actors. The research will consist of a first phase of quantitative analysis and territorial survey and a second phase of qualitative investigation - a questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and focus groups - aimed at investigating concrete conditions and processes of living especially of those social groups that are most exposed to risks of vulnerability and housing expulsion in the neighborhood.