Home is a right to be protected

by Gianni Squarzanti*

In Ferrara the public housing units are owned by the Municipality and are assigned via ranking and managed by Acer. To date there are 3380 properties managed by Acer, but of these approximately 800 equal to 25% cannot be assigned because they require significant maintenance work to make them habitable; If we do not want the public housing stock to decline drastically over the years, it is necessary for the institutions, starting from the State, but also including the Region and the Municipality, to finance the maintenance. The latest ranking for the assignment of ERP housing records 913 applications, but only just over 100 families will have accommodation; the number of citizens who cannot access the allocation of public housing corresponds to the number who remain empty.

The private rental market in Ferrara must continue to encourage rental contracts with agreed rents as a tool which, through tax incentives for the benefit of the owners, keeps the market calm, keeping the rental costs sustainable from family incomes strongly eroded by the increase in rental costs. ‘power.

Access to purchasing a first home must be an opportunity for everyone and especially for young people and young couples; promoting access to credit at subsidized rates and/or promoting incentives with non-repayable contributions represents the way to facilitate access to purchasing.

Particular attention must be paid to the many off-site university students who attend our faculties and need to find accommodation. In this context, an incentive policy through implementation in the provision of scholarships together with the creation of student residences represents a solution to be proposed to our university.

“Ensure tools for citizen participation”. A citizen is truly such if he can participate to public life and contribute to the representation of the city’s problems and the identification and sharing of solutions. This instrument of democracy was in the past guaranteed by the constituencies which represented the territorial institution closest to citizenship. The abolition of constituencies in municipalities with a population of less than 250,000 inhabitants, provided for by the 2010 finance law and by law 42/2010, represented a political error and one of the reasons why people have increasingly abandoned the exercise of their right to vote . Regaining contact with the people by finding forms of involvement similar to the constituencies that allow citizens to participate in the management choices of public affairs is the path to take to regain the trust of the voters.

*candidate in the Municipality of Ferrara for List + Ferrara in Europe – PSI

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