Milan presents the Piano Casa: it will take 10 years to complete it
The start with the first 300,000 square metres. Objective: 10 thousand new dwellings. Resources are to be found for social housing
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Milan is attempting to provide the first answers to housing hardship with the first guidelines of the Piano Casa (Housing Plan), which bears the signature of the new Councillor for Housing Guido Bardelli. The document approved by the council indicates a project spread over 10 years, with 10,000 housing units to be built at affordable costs for those living in Milan and the hinterland.
In the first phase, 300,000 square metres of municipal areas will be made available. It will start with the first four areas, for which the administration will collect expressions of interest by the end of the year: Via San Romanello (about 7,000 square metres), Via Sant'Elia (about 18,000 square metres), Via Demostene (about 4,500 square metres) and Porto di Mare (about 144,000 square metres). These areas alone account for 50 per cent of the total area made available in the first phase. The first 3,000 flats should be built here.
The plan will be developed incrementally, consistent with the provisions of the Piano di Governo del Territorio (Territorial Government Plan), to build 10 thousand new housing units, 6,500 of which in Milan and 3,500 outside Milan, over a ten-year period. The first 300 thousand square metres of areas are of symbolic value, and can be sold as surface rights. On the basis of accessibility to services and public transport, the environmental impact of the intervention and the positive impact that such an operation can have on the neighbourhoods, 21 sites have been identified: via Giolli, via Trevi, via Pitagora, via Bovisasca, via Esterle, via Quinto Romano, via De Notaris, via de Lemene, via Zama/via Salomone, viale Certosa, piazza Abbiategrasso, piazzale Martesana, via Demostene, Pompeo Leoni, via Betti/Cechov, Porto di Mare, via Sant'Elia (ex Palasharp), via San Romanello, via Medici del Vascello, via Gatto/via Cavriana and via Balsamo Crivelli. The municipality will publish exploratory notices to sound out the social housing market.
he plan is articulated on two fronts: the redevelopment of public residential housing, the so-called 'case popolari', for which maintenance resources have yet to be found (there is general talk of reorganisation, i.e. rationalisation and possible sales); and the development of housing in the form of 'Edilizia residenziale sociale calmierata' (Ersc), i.e. permanently rented housing with rents not exceeding 80 euro per square metre per year.
For the implementation of the plan, the Municipality is committed to assessing additional areas of its property in the hinterland, or disused buildings, along the metro and railway lines, opening discussions with the Municipalities of Cologno Monzese, Gessate, Garbagnate Milanese and Senago.
