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HOMA Living, Student housing

Student residences for those studying away from home

This is the business HOMA was born in: finding, launching and operating beds for students away from home, keeping rents within what a family can actually afford.

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Who it serves

Italian and international students, doctoral candidates, people in academic mobility

How it works

Subsidised university residences, directly operated

Where demand comes from

Cercoalloggio.com, public calls and agreements with universities and DSUs

The three student housing models

Italy has three kinds of student housing. Public residences, which grew through Law 338 funding: universities, right-to-study bodies and other public institutions could apply, from conservatories and higher arts institutions to municipalities. Private ones, developed by Italian and foreign investors on the student hotel model. And “convenzionato” (subsidised) residences, also built by private operators, where 30% of the beds go directly to students who qualify on merit and financial need, and the remaining 70% is let to students at a controlled rent. The third way is the model of the residences we operate.

Illustration: the shared kitchen of a student residence on an ordinary evening

The model outlives the recovery plan

The national recovery calls were open not only to public bodies but to private operators at large: that is why sixty thousand subsidised beds will come on stream between 2026 and 2027. But the model does not end with the funding. Many municipalities are aligning local planning rules to the same criteria, granting incentives to those who keep building convenzionato residences: it is becoming the ordinary form of Italian student housing, not a funded parenthesis.

Residences, not apartments

This line is about student residences: whole buildings, with daily presence, shared spaces, common rules and often a public call to comply with. Apartments spread across the city are a different line, the distributed campus, where students and young workers live under residential leases. Keeping the two apart matters: they are different trades and different offers.

Rents and eligibility

In publicly funded residences, rents and eligibility are not set by HOMA: they come from the public call, with income thresholds and quotas reserved for students supported by regional study-grant bodies. Each residence page states amounts, requirements and application windows exactly as they are.

The months of lower demand

In the months of lower academic demand, some rooms in our residences may host tourists or seasonal workers for short stays. It is not what our residences are for, since they remain homes for students, but one more lever in the management mix, one that makes the investment sustainable and helps fund its renovation, keeping the property active all year round instead of ten months out of twelve.

Been awarded the funding and need an operator?

Between Ministerial Decree 481/2024 and the CDP call, thousands of subsidised beds are being built by developers, owning families and investment companies. Building and operating are two different trades: HOMA is an operating entity for third-party owners and a developer of its own schemes.

What residents get

All-inclusive contracts, maintenance with someone to write to, managed common areas and a local team that answers. Operating residences are under HOMA Campus, the brand HOMA uses for dedicated buildings.

Operational residences

Where HOMA student housing is already open

  • Residenza Palazzo Henrici

    Operating

    Residenza Palazzo Henrici

    58 beds in a historic palazzo in central Chieti, steps from the university campuses.

    City
    Chieti
    Beds
    58
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  • Unires Battiati

    Operating

    Unires Battiati

    An exclusive residence in Sant'Agata Li Battiati, on the outskirts of Catania: 25 beds with a gym.

    City
    Catania
    Beds
    25
    View residence
  • Residenza Via dello Stadio

    Operating

    Residenza Via dello Stadio

    10 apartments, 30 beds, assigned to merit-based students and under capped rents.

    City
    Brescia
    Beds
    30
    View residence
  • Residence De Franchis

    Operating

    Residence De Franchis

    12 micro-apartments for students inside a historic building, close to Porta Rudiae.

    City
    Lecce
    Beds
    30
    View residence
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