In Scampia, 18 million euros are spent to demolish or rehabilitate the Vele but the rest of the Campania region suffers from a chronic housing emergency. The collapse in the popular Neapolitan neighborhood, bradyseism in the Phlegraean area, the reconstruction of Casamicciola on the island of Ischia, the difficulties in renovating old buildings in the other provinces have led to the Campania at the center of attention national for a recovery in housing construction.
The topic has been open for some time and only recently European directive on the energy efficiency of homes has made it rediscovered. Only in part, however, because as we know, politics is divided on the application of the European law. For the League, in particular, there remains a sword of Damocles on ownership. Antonio Lombardi, President of Federcepicostruzioni today asks the government and the Regions for a new housing plan for all of Italy. Campania itself gave the opportunity with its Councilor Bruno Discipolo which yesterday put on the table the urgency of a redefinition of strategies and the allocation of interventions on the territory. A week ago she was the president of ANCE, Federica Brancaccio to fear the worst: the Pnrr is at a standstill and our research office predicts a deceleration in investments of 7,4% equal to 10 billion less investments.
Asset to be made efficient
There is no shortage of public funds and after the Superbonus builders want to have a defined framework of rules in front of them. It is national construction planning that does not overlap with the social demand and needs of millions of people. “We need to relaunch a national program – says Lombardi – which puts new ideas and additional resources into play, and which above all activates real collaboration between the central bodies and the Regions”. The housing plan should also relaunch the social housing with a program aimed at middle and low income social classes.
It is understood that the money must be spent safeguarding the territories and eco-sustainable compatibility. "We have a rich real estate heritage – adds Lombardi – which is no longer suitable for the new needs and expectations of the real estate market”. Evidently, not all investments must generate new construction. Next to it there is the great opportunity for renovations and maintenance. The ambition to make public and private building stock more efficient from an environmental and energy point of view today does not align with those who at the ANCE Assembly in June defined the EU Commission as "an eco-extremist disaster".
Public housing programs have been at a standstill for years while the demand is for "new housing, in line from a typological and dimensional point of view, with the needs of smaller families, the elderly, young people, but also university students". Beyond any logic of profit and the variables of the real estate market, housing programs must come together true territorial planning today in the hands of the Regions. Even the Vele di Scampia, in his time, arose from a logic of urban and social baking.
A blocked mechanism
“We have read that the Mef says that too little is being spent, the Municipalities say that the money is not arriving, there are businesses in the middle - explained President Brancaccio - What is the link in the chain where the mechanism is blocked?” . The question is for the prime minister, ministers Salvini, Fitto, Giorgetti who perhaps will be able to give some answers with the next budget law. Meanwhile, there are some consequences of the decline in investments lower revenue for the state. Someone will have noticed. What is certain is that the answer to years of oblivion cannot be the Save Home decree of last May which fixes building defects but does not get to the root of the problem.
