“Agreed” prices. But expensive, very expensive. The future student residence that will be built in the Olympic village of Milan is causing controversy. The reason for the controversy is the prices of the rooms that will be occupied by university students once the Games are over. The one who raised the issue was Samuele Piscina, a city councilor of Milan and provincial secretary of the League, who targeted the now former councilor for housing of the municipality of Milan, Pierfrancesco Maran, who left Palazzo Marino for the European Parliament. “Unfortunately, councilor Maran could only end his experience in the city council with yet another defeat on the issue of housing: the future student residence in the Olympic village at 1000 euros per room is a snapshot of how the councilor and the municipal administration are increasingly pushing our city into the abyss”, the words of the member of the League.
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“The Olympic village was supposed to be a real breath of fresh air for young people who come to Milan to study, through its conversion into a student residence at the end of the 2026 Olympic Games. It is shocking to know that the agreement stipulated between the Porta Romana Fund and the municipality of Milan provides for monthly rents for single rooms at 1000 euros and for double rooms at 740 euros per person. These are crazy prices for an agreement that was supposed to have the objective of offering affordable rents to students who come to Milan”, continued Piscina.
“This agreement will obviously not help out-of-town students, nor the Milanese who will continue to see a constant increase in house prices. After all, Maran and the Sala Council had already shown us how, beyond electoral promises, they wanted to make Milan an increasingly exclusive city. Suffice it to say that the Maran Pgt, which in words was supposed to create a boom in social housing in the city, has produced only 5 interventions of this kind in as many years. As the League, we are asking for a clear change in policy on the issue of housing and urban planning, a clear discontinuity with what has been done so far. House prices continue to rise, both for rent and for purchase. Evidently, what has been done so far has been harmful and it is madness that the Milanese left, the PD first and foremost, does not change strategy, unless the objective is precisely of a classist nature to distance the most vulnerable classes from the city. The council – concluded the League councilor – should immediately review the agreement and try to remedy the umpteenth damage caused to the city”.
