Dear student rentals, Sala su Valditara: “It’s enough to be loyal to the boss to make a career, then we’ll find such ministers”

The attack is direct: “It is enough to have loyalty to the party, or rather to the boss, and you can make a career. Then these are the results: ministers like that”. He doesn’t send them to say, the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala. That’s how he responds to words by the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara on the rent issue for students, which became a national case after the first protest of the tents in Milan.

Valditara, in fact, had commented on the university protests with words that angered not only some mayors, but also his colleague, the minister of the University Anna Maria Bernini. “I believe that the problem of high rents is serious but it affects the cities governed by the centre-left. There, where there are also student camps, the municipal councils have not activated policies in favor of young people to offer them a decent housing landscape” , the lunge of Valditara.

Thus, if Sala and others had already answered on Wednesday, today the mayor of Milan – interviewed with Forrest on Rai Radio Uno – argued: “It is serious that the Minister of Education does not understand young people and does not even address the problem to start a dialogue with them by making these accusations. Evidently everything is worth it. If you are the minister of education and demonstrate even so little capacity for analysis… In short, you are everyone’s minister: I in Milan do not allow myself to make fun of the others because I have a responsibility, and he? Doesn’t he have it? And he starts dividing the country on day one?”. And he continues: “What Valditara says doesn’t make me smile – explains Sala – and I who haven’t been a politician all my life, but know other worlds and I’m also proud of it, say that normally in other worlds you need credentials to find a job , however, in politics it is often not like this… In fact, it is enough to have loyalty to the party, or rather to the boss, and you can make a career… But these are the results: we have ministers like that”.

Crazy rents in Milan, Sala: “To find houses for students, curb Airbnb”

“It is clear that the government’s intervention on high rents would be very important but we cannot wait since the problem exists. We are working to bring about the birth of new student accommodation, we are fighting against the Airbnb phenomenon because if you have ten or twenty houses and removing them from the real estate market is not good for us – recalled Sala -. Some form of contrast must be found. Then we work to promote social housing, for the new residences that are built 30% is left to social housing. of mixed residences, a part of which is subsidized housing, the price of which is fixed with an agreement with the Municipality”.

Rents for students, in Milan the summit in the Municipality: 13,000 beds in the city and 70,000 off-site

Controversy that heats up on the day in which a summit is scheduled (at 6.30 pm) in Palazzo Marino between the Municipality, the Region, the rectors and students to draw up a city plan against high rents, while in the evening Sala will participate in a meeting at the State University with the rector to meet the students. Today, the mayor explained, Milan has 13,000 student beds against 70,000 off-site students: “We also know that prices are high, but there is a great deal of planning we are working on”. Those in Milan are prohibitive figures. An “unsustainable” situation too for Archbishop Mario Delpiniwho spoke several times on the “serious and complex” theme of “disproportionate prices” for many, including those who work or the sick who come to the Lombard capital for treatment: “It is not from today that the disproportion between the students’ request and the offer of the city”.

The search for even new solutions involves everyone. Stefano Boeri, for example, proposes to exploit the existing: “Today we have thousands and thousands of square meters of offices that cannot be used as workplaces because they have been designed with a completely different idea from what is now the mechanism of intellectual work. These spaces can become a very interesting heritage from the point of view of housing for young people”. The unions also denounce the rent situation in big cities like Milan, with CGIL and Sunia in the front row: “We support the national mobilization of students and denounce the serious condition of the rental market”, reads a note. In which they add: “It is necessary to establish funds in favor of the Municipalities to co-finance the purchase and renovation of housing, starting from the unsold assets of social security institutions, of bankrupt public and private companies, from assets confiscated from the mafia, a cultural battle as well as a dispute “.