Fondazione Impact Housing is a small but focused non-profit based in Genoa, with its legal seat in Via Asilo Garbarino 6/B, created to link housing policy, social fragility and private capital in a practical way.
Set up on the initiative of the Turin-based social housing startup Homes4All and three long‑standing social organisations – Danish Refugee Council Italia, the Milan cooperative Comin and the Genoese Centro di Solidarietà CEIS – the foundation was launched in 2021 as an “ente del Terzo Settore”. Its founders brought together experience in migrant reception, child and family services, addiction treatment and property management.
Impact Housing’s core idea is that the home can be the starting point for both urban and “human” regeneration. It works on cases where people face overlapping economic, housing and social vulnerabilities, such as overcrowding, poor‑quality dwellings or energy poverty. Rather than buying and managing housing stock itself, the foundation concentrates on research and project design in “impact housing” – housing initiatives backed by private investment explicitly tied to measurable social outcomes.
From Genoa, and operational bases in Turin and Milan, the team designs and monitors pilot projects, participates in European programmes, collects case studies and develops tools to assess impact. It then turns this work into training, toolkits, public events and technical support to local partners, trying to influence how public and private resources for housing are allocated.
Governance is shared between a board chaired by architect and academic Matteo Robiglio and a small operational team led by general director Giorgia Di Cintio.