The municipalities are in revolt. The announcement of the Housing Plan by the national government – which should allow, according to what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni declared, to “make 100 thousand social housing units available in the next 10 years” – has alarmed the local administrations. And the reason is easy to say: that Plan, which still does not know how many resources it can count on (the Prime Minister referred to the resounding figure of “ten billion euros”), will almost certainly be financed with a substantial part of funds that had been and are destined for the Municipalities. Funds that concern urban regeneration, sustainable mobility, social inclusion and energy efficiency. The councilors for housing policies of the main Italian cities (Bologna, Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin and Genoa), in a document signed by the members of the “Municipal Alliance for the Right to Housing”, asked the Government for “a direct discussion with the Municipalities to define the implementation of policies for the housing issue”. In any case, the message is clear: «We cannot think of solving the housing problem with a national plan that in fact makes use of funds already allocated to the Municipalities for urban regeneration projects. We need new, dedicated and tied funds: we ask that the Municipalities do not pay for the Housing Plan.”
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