Quartiere Diamante’s redevelopment is an urban-renewal project in Begato, Genoa, aimed at replacing the former Dighe di Begato housing complex and improving housing and public spaces in the area.12 Its origins date to 2018, when Genoa’s municipal government and the Liguria Region set out plans for the regeneration; the project was promoted by those public bodies, with Arte Genova appointed as its implementing agency.2
The work proceeded in phases. By May 2020, 630 vacant apartments had been recovered to relocate 274 households from the Dighe. In 2021, the largely deteriorated public-housing complex, built in the 1980s, was almost entirely demolished.1 The redevelopment has involved more than five years of work and over €35 million in investment, including €15 million from the national Pnrr programme through Pinqua.1
The new phase includes three energy-efficient buildings on via Maritano, classified as Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. They contain 60 apartments: 40 for public housing and the remainder for social housing. Arte Genova had assigned 20 social-housing apartments through a tender, while the Municipality of Genoa was to tender the public-housing units. A Carabinieri station, with four service apartments, is also planned in the building replacing the former red Diga.1
The only remaining section of the former white Diga, on via Cechov, has had 55 apartments renovated for public housing. Further national funding of €2 million was allocated for green areas, association spaces, sports facilities, a cultural centre and a rooftop skate park; those works were unfinished when the article was published.1 The first occupants of the new buildings were expected from October 2026. The article reports that no former Diga residents would be among the tenants of the new buildings.1