Mayors against the government, government distrustful of the municipalities. The case concerns PNRR money for the Pui. What are ? Are the Integrated urban plans that the municipalities have prepared to reorganize the spaces, activities and structures of the cities.
In metropolitan areas they can mark decisive turning points as in the case of Rome or Naples. In the capital there is a project for Tor Bella Monaca, in Naples they are investing in Scampia.
In small municipalities the value of the Pui is also double, in the sense that in addition to qualifying the urban area it allows private individuals to carry out the renovation of homes. Sustainable microcircuits and efficient with virtuous effects on the real estate market.
Everything, however, is getting complicated due to cuts to the PNRR. The allocation of 13 billion to give substance to the projects, according to the Minister Raffaele Fitto it must be moved to the Repower. In a month Ecofin will approve the revision of the Plan and if an agreement is not found in Italy, the mayors will find themselves in the middle of a very worrying administrative ford.
Does the government have no interest in redeveloping cities? The President of the Anci Antonio DeCaro he tried to explain the reasons why we shouldn't touch that money. Faced with phenomena of social and economic marginalization, the Pui are today the only answer to reorganizing people's lives and interests.
“We need to start looking at the Pnrr no longer as some sort of bad luck that happened to us. For us it is the future of our communities” said De Caro. The problem is that 13 billion out of 40, they are moved to Repower without knowing which resources will replace them. For now, Fitto has not clarified.
The tenders are ready
The point of greatest concern is the start of the works. In a recent forum at Republic it was learned that the Municipalities have already assigned 147 thousand tenders and companies are ready to open construction sites. If it doesn't happen, disputes will start without the government or the PNRR control room being held accountable.
“The municipalities are the most advanced with the tenders,” says the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri. To the government's suspicion of not seeing the work completed by 2026, ANCI responds with confidence in the ability of local authorities not to waste the opportunity. Of course the administrative machine is what it is, but the impetus that the municipalities are putting in should give rise to a little more credibility.
The Roman mess according to the mayors starts from the allocation of 40 billion euros equal to 19% of the funds. Why doesn't the government tell us what is happening with the remaining 81%? insists Decaro.
The numbers make it easier to understand the reasons for this controversy which, incidentally, also affects many centre-right mayors. They are on the field 3.300 projects above 5 million euros. Approximately 90% concern micro interventions with a cost of under 10 thousand euros.
The PNRR also intervened Court of Auditors: "it appears increasingly urgent to quickly finalize the revision phase of the Plan to remove factors of uncertainty, both for the initiatives that will remain managed within the Pnrr and for those that will have to leave it, allowing responsible subjects and implementers to make the appropriate adaptations". Mayors are the main implementers:
In cities there is a world driven by the need to overhaul decaying neighborhoods that cannot remain as they are today. Hard to justify more large public finance intervention of the last 50 years. It would be a failure for that too sentiment of the Nation that excites the prime minister so much.