4 billion home plan at the finish line: all the novelties on the table of the Cdm

Administrative simplifications to speed up the urban planning steps needed to implement projects. Maintenance of social housing to bring the more than 60,000 currently uninhabitable properties back into circulation. And interventions for social housing (students and residences for the elderly) in addition to affordable housing, i.e. affordable housing for the so-called grey bracket: those too poor for the rental and purchase market but too rich to be included in the social housing lists. One hundred thousand housing units in ten years, as Premier Giorgia Meloni announced last summer. All with an important role for funds, including private ones. These could be the ingredients of the Housing Plan, worth 4-5 billion, drafted by the Meloni government, which from what has been filtered should land on the table of the Council of Ministers this afternoon. Already announced in early March, it was overwhelmed by the emergency of war and accounts.

The file work on the texts, all of which are armour-plated, will go on until the very end and was still going on last night between the Ministry of Infrastructure and Palazzo Chigi. "We're still working on it tonight, we're still working on it even in these minutes, I don't want to give figures," said Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini last night at the end of the meeting of the Carroccio parliamentary groups. Amongst many points to be defined, there is some certainty, however. Everything will revolve around a decree law that will address the issue of public housing. Here, funding of some 970 million euro from the last three Budget Acts is available. They will be used for the redevelopment of uninhabitable housing: work that costs relatively little (20 thousand euro per intervention, although some speak of double that) but that will bring considerable benefit to the territory. A Management Committee, headed by a commissioner, could be involved in the management of the resources, in which the Regions and the Anci, as well as the mayors of some large cities, would also sit. A step that could, however, complicate the flow of funding to the Housing Authorities, in an emergency over the tightness of the social housing system.

A second emergency measure will then address the issue of social housing and affordable housing. In this case, work will be done on two strands: the redevelopment of public buildings and the construction of new buildings. The easing of authorisation procedures will therefore become crucial. In this case, a model already exists: it is that of the student halls of residence within the Pnrr. Here, urban planning simplifications have already been foreseen, with exceptions to the prior approval of implementation plans for projects. Similar models could then be applied. And investment funds could be involved, with the co-partnership between public and private entities and the participation of institutional investors such as Cassa depositi e prestiti.

Finally, there is the chapter of the quick evictions. The hypothesis is to launch a bill that could serve to speed up the removals, starting precisely from the squatted council houses (over 20 thousand). A hypothesis in the balance until the very end: only today will it be decided whether or not to actually bring the text to the Council of Ministers, even if, as has been leaked, this specific measure could eventually be skipped. On the funding front, the housing plan could count on a number of financial levers: in addition to the billion for social housing from the MIT funds, there is also a package of four to five billion euro under consideration, this time in the coffers of the ministry headed by Tommaso Foti. The funds derive from various European funding sources, including the 1.1 billion from the mid-term review of cohesion funds prepared by Commissioner Raffaele Fitto. However, there is another 1.2 billion ex-Rosco that will have to be negotiated at the EU level during the final remodulation of the NRP expected in June. And which will therefore not be immediately available in the Plan.