The first piece of the puzzle that will make up the government’s Housing Plan is beginning to take shape, for the part dedicated to the redevelopment of public housing, and before the summer break, at the end of last month, it landed on the tables of a Steering Committee meeting at the Ministry of Infrastructure. The engines are hot, to the point that Commissioner Felice Squitieri, the director of the project, was a guest at the League’s Territorial Table, where he “illustrated the work lines of the Plan” as well as, indeed, “the first call for tenders of 700 million euros,” as reported in a note from the Carroccio signed by Stefano Locatelli, head of the party’s Local Authorities. The first days of September are circled in red on the calendar: it is at the resumption after the summer suspension that the publication of the 700 million euro call for tenders for the renovation of uninhabitable public housing is expected. Only later, still to be defined, will the second call for tenders of 270 million arrive, dedicated to social residential construction.
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But let’s go in order. According to sources close to the dossier, the allocation of resources should take place in two phases. A first share of 700 million will be distributed among the Regions based on the size of the ERP (public residential building) stock, using as a reference the data from the latest available census, dating back to 2021, which also includes housing managed by the Municipalities. Once the territorial distribution is defined, the interventions to be financed will then be identified based on the properties indicated at the regional level.
The recipients of the resources will be housing companies, “in-house” entities, and Municipalities that own or manage the public residential building stock. These entities will submit applications, indicating the list of properties to be intervened on, the type of work, and the timing of implementation: a notice, prepared by Invitalia (the implementing body of this part of the Plan), in coordination with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, will request the submission of these lists.
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The architecture is complex. In addition to focusing resources on immediately recoverable housing, there is also a matter of territorial balance. The puzzle will have to balance the need to finance properties scattered across the territory, while avoiding that some Regions drain all the available resources: the easiest example is Lombardy, which would have the need to spend all the first 700 million on its own. The same applies to other Regions, such as Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, or Tuscany. On the other hand, it will also be necessary to avoid that funds are assigned to Regions that do not have enough uninhabitable properties to spend them. The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of currently unused properties, because they need extraordinary maintenance or redevelopment interventions. And this is also what is being considered.
The orientation would be to provide payments based on work progress (Sal), with a calendar structured as follows: 15% advance, 25% in January, and 45% in July, the month by which the construction site must be started, under penalty of revocation of the resources. The balance will finally be collected per assignable housing unit. Another important point under study concerns families on the waiting list. The start of renovation work will lead to a simultaneous allocation of housing units, moving the rankings (which currently count about 300,000 families in line). In this way, after redevelopment, it will be possible to immediately allocate the housing units, avoiding generating a collateral problem of illegal occupations.
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