What was the “Milan model” It seems to be definitively fading in this summer torrid and sad. On Wednesday the Prosecutor asked the judge for the preliminary investigations (investigating judge) to arrest six people investigated: among these are the commissioner for urban regeneration Giancarlo Tancredi And Manfredi Catella, President of the Grande Society of Development Society Coima, who has built many projects in the city including a large part of the new buildings in the Porta Nuova district, and which is working on the construction of the Olympic village for the Milan-Cortina 2026 winter Olympics. There are then a manufacturer, two members of the landscape commission of the Municipality of Milan and an architect.
The mayor Giuseppe Sala, of the Democratic Party, is accused of “false declarations on personal qualities or other people” and competition in “undue induction to give or promise utility”.
The investigation of the prosecutor – on which it is still early to give a judgment and for which it is necessary to wait for the development of the investigations – however, puts the finger in the plague that many people have known for some time and live on their own skin. Milan is a city that excludes and pushes to the margins because it is simply dear, too dear. Scandalously dear.
It often happens, when one is looking for a home, to feel said from the real estate agent: “But do you need them to live or to make an investment?”.
Milan is the city where the archbishop Mario Delpini It has had to intervene several times to say that The houses are used to live, in fact, not to do business. And for this, last December, he launched the “Schuster Fondo – Houses for people” entrusted to the Caritas Ambrosiana It arrives at a 2 million euro equipment. There are three objectives: to support the redevelopment of housing, for which half of the resources is intended; Offer guarantees to private individuals who provide the apartments with calm rents (20%) and make a contribution to housing expenses, from contribution to rent to that for bills, condominium or redevelopment expenses. (30%).
The investigation of the prosecutor marks the end of an indigestible city model for many and appetizing for a few, indeed very few. A Milan that in recent years has looked very high and very little, or almost never, at the bottom. A city that has lost sight of the common good of many, cheering for the prices that went up and the houses that became most expensive than Dubai, London or New York.
A city that pretended not to see – Except for some, praisable exceptions such as the Church and the world of volunteering and the third sector – Like much of what was once called “middle class” was thrown away, and quickly, by the train of normal life while many complain that trams and buses no longer pass as before because the ATM struggles to recruit drivers because if you arrive from outside Milan with a salary of 1,500 euros you struggle to live and that money is enough to pay the rent.
A “model”, let’s call it that, of cities that In the name of the brick, he passed out herself and benefited from a glossy narrative Thanks also, sometimes, to a short -term ruling class and compliant information. If not, addition, accomplice.
The brick has been the true core business of the city in recent years between Expo, redevelopment of abandoned areas, former railway stops that have become, in the glittering narrative of many, “Place to be”, vertical woods (Meanwhile, there was less and less “horizontal” green, as we realize in the summer when the neighborhoods become hot and irrespirable basin and the asphalt spits out the fire), skyscrapers pulled up and passed off as “renovations” where before there was a small building, very ambitious randating houses, neighborhoods made chic, always in the patinated narrative above, changing the name as in the case of the boom of Nolowhich stands for North of Loreto in the official language of the city, which is English. Instead of solving the problems, we change the name to the neighborhoods.
And the poor are systematically expelled out of the boundaries in what the Milanese slang calls “Circonvalla” which before, perhaps, made it laugh and now only angry.
The numbers speak clearly. It is estimated that this year The average price of the square meter will be 11,200 euros in the center, 6,450 in a semicentro and 3,950 in the suburbs. Translated: to buy a house – not a 500 square meter penthouse but a studio apartment – you have to be rich, very rich. Moreover, the brick is the good refuge that has increased more: in Milan, the value of a house exceeded 35 times what she had fifty years ago, in ’75 (gold, to say, has re -evaluated “only” 21 times).
Music does not change on rentals. According to a recent study of the work service, cohesion and territory of the UIL in Milan on rent amounts to 1,810 euros for average monthly and affects the family budget for 57.9% (The incidence of the cost of the rent, on the other hand, has been calculated on Istat data relating to the living conditions and families income). A record given. In Rome, 1,503 euros per month are paid in Rome, which affect 48.1%; In Bolzano rents amount to 1,433 euros per month that affect 45.8%; In Como 1,375 euros per month, which affect 44% and Modena 1,358 euros per month, which affect 43.4%.
First it was said that in Milan there was work. There is still, of course, but the paradox that has become too expensive, almost prohibitive, for those who should work there. The data are clear: in the last five years the prices of the rents have grown by 40%, while the salaries have remained still. The result is that a growing part of the Milanese workforce can no longer afford to live where it works.
However, things end – all the suspects are innocent until proven otherwise – The model of the “left” city is definitively crumbling on how much more right there is: the voracious consumption of the soil, brick, urban planning, slippers kissed at the Palazzinari.
Right and left which, however, found themselves in arm when the “Salva Milano” arrived in Parliament, the law proposed by the center -right majority to unlock the complicated situation of urban planning in the city, affected by the investigations, which then ended up on a dead track and was no longer approved.
Time will say what will happen. Today is the photograph of a disaster and a discomfort for millions of people who remained unheard for a long time.
The middle class has disappeared, the extra luxury skyscrapers remained.
