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The criterion that assigns points based on years of residence in Messina for the assignment of public residential housing ends up at the center of an urgent question presented by the municipal councilors of the “Scurria Mayor for Messina Partecipazione” group, Capurro, Contestabile and Scurria.
At the center of the council initiative is the criterion of seniority of residence included in the ERP regulation approved by resolution of the City Council and in the subsequent ERP housing assignment notice approved with resolution no. 1662 of 28 February 2025. This criterion attributes 0.50 points for each year of residence in the Municipality of Messina starting from the third year, without any maximum limit, allowing you to accumulate a potentially unlimited score.
The councilors highlight that this mechanism is in open contrast with the consolidated orientation of the Constitutional Court, recently reaffirmed with sentence no. 1 of 2026, according to which any provision that attributes to the stay in the territory such a weight as to make the real state of need recessive violates the art. 3 of the Constitution regarding equality and reasonableness.
The data in the announcement speak clearly: an applicant with 35 years of registered residence already accumulates 16 points exclusively as a result of the seniority criterion – exactly the same maximum score reserved for a family unit of four or more members with an ISEE between 0 and 3,000 euros. The criterion, in its concrete application, ends up canceling the centrality of the state of need, which is instead the constitutional prerequisite of public residential construction.
Requests to the Administration
With the question, the councilors ask the Mayor and the competent councilor whether the Administration is aware of the aforementioned orientation of the Constitutional Court and whether it was considered in the drafting phase of the ERP Regulation and the tender.
How the Administration intends to restore legality, through the exercise of self-protection powers, the correction of the current ranking with the elimination of the illegitimate score (letter H) and the modification of the ERP Regulation.
Within what concrete terms does the Administration undertake to adopt corrective measures.
The urgency of the situation
The councilors underline that on the date of filing the question, housing assignments were already arranged or in the process of being formalized on the basis of the flawed ranking. Every day of inertia consolidates legal situations whose subsequent annulment would be more costly and could trigger serial litigation before administrative judges.