In 2023 in Lombardy there were over 65,000 applications for public housing assignments while the satisfaction rate remained around 4%. In the meantime, vacant public housing is increasing and to date has reached around 20,000 (more than half in the regional capital) while public housing is decreasing and is being put up for general tender.
The complaint from CGIL CISL UIL was heard this afternoon in the protest held in Milan, with a CISL Brescia delegation present with the territorial secretary Maria Rosa Loda, in front of the entrances to Palazzo Lombardia.
“The recent changes to the regional regulation – the unions write in a note – do not protect the demand of the most vulnerable people. On the contrary, they are further removed from the general tenders intended for families with lower incomes and in serious housing emergency, while the assignment is also admitted for those who own accommodation, further reducing the housing supply. The scoring system continues to favor “subjective” conditions over those linked to objective situations of housing difficulty”.
During the demonstration, the Region was asked to change direction on policies for public residential construction, to protect the people and families who actually have the right: “The assignment times are extremely long – continues the press release – and are increasing at each announcement; submitting the application remains complicated; the scores seem to be designed to penalize those in greater difficulty; there is a lack of tools to deal with the housing emergency, in particular that linked to evictions”.
Cgil Cisl Uil, together with the tenants’ unions, reiterate that it is necessary to “build true and efficient public offering policies for ALER and municipal housing, consistent with the needs of demand, allocating permanent financing of at least 1% of the regional budget to the sector . Because without a dignified home, there is no dignified life.”
