We stayed at Jacopo's place for a month with our 20 month old baby. At first we were worry about the location, but turns out It's such a wonderful location for family, it's quite, and lots of wide open roads and squares for kids to run around.
The area is not really touristy, so you don't have people passing by your door or window 24/7, it's rather quiet and safe, mostly locals, but also convenient with food, and water bus.
The hose has a nice shared courtyard but no one ever used it except us, the rooms are clean and spacious with bright skylights. We really enjoyed our month stay at the house and glad we stayed in this neighborhood which we saw and photographed some of the pretty and less commercial part of the Venice.