“The Regional Council commit the president of the junta to evaluate the possibility of allocating extraordinary regional resources to contribute to the coverage of the municipal rankings that remained unavailable; integrate the resources of the “rent bonus” fund; activate at the National Government to solicit the refinancing of the National Fund to support the rent; highlight the particular difficulties of the regions of the South; Check the possibility of using European programming resources 2021-2027 for residential support interventions; report to the regional council, within 60 days, on the actions taken and on the results obtained ».
This is what proposes, in a motion that is asked to insert the director on the agenda of the next regional council Antonio Lo Schiavo, President of the Mixed – freely progressive group, concerning “Urgent measures for the housing emergency in Calabria. Request for regional and national interventions for supporting families in difficulty with the payment of the rent”.
The initiative, as explained in the introduction, starts from the observation that “the National Fund for support for access to leases (L. 431/98, art. 11) – so -called rent bonus – was not financed by the budget law 2025; Consequently, the Calabria Region, with the 2025 stability law, reduced the allocation of the state contribution from the sum of 6 million 299 thousand euros (resulting from the budget for 2024) to just 176 thousand 102 euros; The undersigned, during the approval of the stability law 2025 (20 December 2024), had proposed a special amendment to refinance the Bonus Fund for rent with 1 million and 400 thousand euros to be subtracted from the budget chapter U11010107, mission 01, program 01.01; The aforementioned amendment has not been approved. Taking note that – continues Lo Schiavo – numerous Calabrian municipalities have published calls for support for rent and drawn up special rankings; It was not possible to provide contributions for lack of financial coverage; This situation has created false expectations in families already in economic difficulty ». Finally, noted that “thousands of Calabrian families are in a condition of innocent arrears; The absence of public support for the rent is likely to determine a social emergency, in violation of the duties of political and social solidarity “therefore” is necessary “an intervention of the Calabria Region to support families in difficulty”.