They are defined as "interventions that can no longer be postponed". And 250 million euros are needed to carry them out. But Area, the regional agency for housing in Sardinia, doesn't have that money. Thanks to the provisions, there are barely 40 million available, not even a sixth of what is needed.
But it is from these resources that the "Extraordinary program on the maintenance of the ERP (public residential buildings) assets of the Area" starts, an organization that manages approximately 28 thousand homes on the island. A plan that has yet to be authorized, proposed to the Region by the sole administrator Antonello Melis. To open construction sites that can no longer be postponed.
The picture that emerges from the provision recently signed with the general director Filippo Riu appears devastating. We read that «it is urgent and undeferrable to carry out a general monitoring of the maintenance needs of the company assets with regard to the safety of numerous situations of precarious static condition of the buildings, to energy efficiency and to the recovery of a long-standing delay in the maintenance maintenance and performance efficiency of the buildings", with specific reference to "the minimum functional conditions to which the managed accommodation must respond".
In short: there are public housing at the limits of usability (perhaps beyond) and liveability. And it happens in a context in which approximately one tenant in four is in arrears and does not pay the rent. Also for this reason the Region had to advance 9 million euros per year, for three years: the alternative was the collapse of the institution and the buildings.
For this reason the leaders of the Area consider it "appropriate and urgent" to start with the work. Of the 40 million (spending has yet to be authorised), 9 will go to public housing in the Cagliari district, 8.5 to Sassari and Nuoro, 6 to Oristano and 8 to Carbonia. A small patch.
