Salvini, lifting restrictions on short-term rentals

"We are also reasoning within the majority on a limitation, in my opinion at the moment penalising and excessive, on the use and income-generating use of private property: limiting the so-called short rental market." This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, in a video message to the assembly of Confedilizia.

"If private property is sacred, everyone does what they want with their flat,' he said. 'If anything, you can regulate within the condominium, but blocking or censoring is not. I think that it is an ideological battle of some mayors, I am thinking of Florence or Milan, and that by dint of restricting, limiting and penalising we are emptying the historical centres'.

"Squatting," Salvini added, "must be cleared within the first few hours, whether it is the first, second or forty-seventh house because someone has paid for that house and paid taxes on it, so on this I am not willing to mediate with pseudo-tenants' unions. There is the blameless delinquency fund. Private property is sacred and occupying someone else's home is an offence that cannot have any moral, economic or social justification, otherwise we open a devastating precedent,' he concluded