Asppi – trade union association of small property owners intervenes regarding the government’s cut in the fund for arrears and the refinancing by the Liguria Region of the rental fund.
«The allocation of own resources by the Liguria Region for the financing of the Rental Fund is an emergency intervention, not sufficient to cover the real needs of economic support to the private long-term housing rental market. The Government has the political, economic and social responsibility for having eliminated the funds, and these interventions, although important, are completely insufficient to provide concrete answers, not only to tenants, but to the property owners themselves” comments by Valentina Pierobonprovincial president of Genoa and national vice-president of Asppi, at the news of the renewal of the financing by the regional body for the Rental Fund, also following the government’s cut in the funds allocated to this area.
«Our union joins the requests put forward by the tenants’ associations – continues Pierobon – so that the Liguria Region undertakes to request the Government not only to restore the funds to support the rent, but above all to ensure that a clear and structural economic policy has been outlined to support private rentalto ensure the recovery and support of the residential housing market”.
«Too many insecurities, risks and costs weigh on people small property owners who today more than ever see their savings compromised, with increasingly reduced margins of convenience to rent out one’s properties on a long-term basis – he observes -. This climate of economic and social uncertainty will have the natural consequence that more and more properties will be removed from the residential rental market, to the advantage of short-term and tourist rentals, which are leaner, safer and with greater profit margins. This natural evolution of the market will once again be to the detriment of families with less income capacity, who will have an ever smaller number of properties at their disposal, with rising prices and increasingly stringent guarantee requirements.”
An observation that takes up Asppi’s proposals on the topic, which has long been at the forefront of finding a solution that can guarantee all parties involved in this criticality that has now become structural. «Our proposal to extend the advantages of the agreed contract to the audience of all Municipalities is an active policy measure to support housing rental which would guarantee a disincentive to vacancy, and a form of support for less well-off groups of tenants who still have difficulty accessing public residential housing, no longer able to provide adequate responses to an ever-increasing demand”.
«The support of Azione Liguria – concludes Pierobon − thanks to the intervention of councilor Pippo Rossetti who welcomes and carries forward our proposal to extend the agreed contract to all the Municipalities, is an important signal of a reversal of trend in terms of housing policies, capable of overcoming the critical issues experienced by the market also from the point of view of the needs of real estate ownership. We need a new perspective from which to start to analyze and address the housing problem at a local and national level, guaranteeing equal dignity and listening to the requests of all the actors involved, tenants but also property owners”.
