Immigrants who work in our country find the lack of homes the main obstacle to their lives. What public protection is provided for them? Access, without discrimination, to public housing, to social agencies, to subsidized construction credit, to the recovery, purchase and rental of the first residential home.
The council house. In 1999, almost 60% of the eligible applications for public housing in Milan and its province were presented by non-EU citizens. In short, public housing is the only segment of the offer in which immigrants, thanks to their reduced incomes, are privileged compared to our compatriots. Vincenzo Guerrieri, president of the Aler-Iacp of Milan, specifies that 'the holders of a residence permit assigned to public housing are already 2,460 in Milan and their number will grow. Eligible applications went from 16% of the total in 1992 to 57.8% in 1999.' A similar trend is also that of Bologna (non-EU citizens in the ranking are almost a quarter of those enrolled).
Unfortunately, the supply of social housing, which has always been lacking (5%, compared to 19% in Europe, of social housing for rent), has been in sharp decline for years. And then the new immigration rules create a paradox: the assigned immigrant, if he loses his job, is forced to repatriate, but the IACP apartment remains assigned, at least until the arrears and abandonment of the premises are proven.
Innovative projects. The Regions can grant contributions both to local authorities and to non-profit associations, for the hygienic-sanitary rehabilitation of accommodation they own, to be allocated to the homes of regular foreigners.
Pilot initiatives. These are concessions which may include surety guarantees on rentals from private individuals (Cesenate renting companies and Fondazione S.Carlo in Milan), pensioners and paid hotel houses, or rental of owned homes (such as the cooperatives Casa per gli non-EU citizens in Verona, Casa amica in Bergamo, Dar and Fondazione S.Carlo in Milan). These last two entities have created an example of effective self-financing, leasing for 15-25 years - at symbolic rents - more than 300 uninhabitable apartments from the Aler of Milan. After the renovation, they rent them to immigrants at attractive rents (from 400 to 650 thousand lire per month), however lower than the market ones.
source: from: Il Sole 24 Ore
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