Furious controversy against the new urban plan of the mayor of Florence Funaro: stop on small apartments (even on the outskirts), but no restrictions on the areas of the new billionaire airports.
More than a new regulation to regulate the stop to short-term tourist rentals, it seems like an old settling of accounts between the left Florence and homeowners, because otherwise what they have decided to do makes no sense Palazzo Vecchio. The mayor Sara Funaroin fact, it has extended the stop to short-term rentals also outside the historic center, which is an area under UNESCO protection; in short, in a very large part of the municipal area, homeowners cannot do what they want with their properties.
And so the above question arises: why this… settling of accounts against private property? Among other things, it is a provision which, although not permanent (“It is not static, it will change over time”, explained the Funaro as if it were a physics lesson), it hits the middle class who invested where they could, therefore where property prices were lower. Someone should be asked to explain why a citizen who, to make money, wanted to make an income from his home by renting it to tourists for B&B use, finds himself with this stop imposed by the Common. And thank goodness the mayor doesn’t see any punitive or persecutory intent.
Stoccata at Palazzo Vecchio: the squeeze on short-term rentals that divides Florence
My friend Guglielmo Mossutowho is the group leader of the Alloy in Commonhe’s been telling me for a while about the degradation of the Tuscan capital and the thousand problems. And rightly yesterday he called me angry black: «We are the most insecure city behind Milan and this council is thinking of cutting off the legs of those who want to earn by exercising their full constitutional right. Come on, it’s a direct and ideological attack on the right to private property: it’s always the same communists! Short-term rentals are not in the hands of large speculators, but of families who use these proceeds to cope with the cost of living, to pay local taxes – starting with the IMU – and to finance the maintenance of the properties themselves. And then it is an economy that remains totally local: something that is unfair.”
It’s hard to blame him. Above all I follow my old friend William when he points out to me some political inconsistencies that only those who know the dynamics of Florence can point out to us: «If the council’s objective was really to protect the neighborhoods from speculation and defend residentiality, why isn’t the ban also extended to the areas that will be impacted by large infrastructures in the coming years, such as those near the new airports?». For about ten years Florence there are areas interested in large investments. «Investments? For me they are real estate speculation operations. I’ll explain: the new regulation blocks the small apartments of Florentines Rifredi or to Field of Mars with the excuse of “protection”, but red carpets are rolled out to large investors, coincidentally precisely where the new access gates of Florencewhere the value of land and buildings is destined to skyrocket. Because there the Common doesn’t it put constraints? Let me make a bad joke: the communists have requisitioned the homes of the middle class.”
The shadow of real estate strabismus between Tuscany and Lombardy
Real estate squint, says the opposition Florencewho on the text could not touch the ball because he was blocked. «What a useless rush to stop short-term rentals for ordinary Florentines. The same ones stressed by the junta’s inability to control and monitor nightlife and fights between immigrants.” Every year a Florence it gets worse and worse. For now he plays with it Milanthe first most unsafe city in Italy. What with Florence seems to have an affinity for winking at large groups. At least that’s what she thinks Power of attorney Milanese which has moved from skyscrapers to concessions of prestigious commercial spaces especially in Vittorio Emanuele Gallerynext to Cathedral.
From what we can see, the investigations – which began after a complaint presented last year by the entrepreneur Massimiliano Lisamuseum animator on Leonardo da Vinci at the corner of Gallery with piazza della Stairsthan with the council Room has some disputes at stake – they concern certain high-impact video installations in particularly attractive locations, such as the Renaissancewhere two blockbuster films were shown: the biopic Michael on Michael Jacksonand the highly anticipated sequel to The Devil wears Prada. Other acts instead concerned concessions to the fashion house Dior and to the maison Montblanc for their stores in Gallery. In short, all very valuable real estate destinations. The accusation of Power of attorney it is a crime against Public administration. The political accusation instead, a Milan as a Florenceit’s because left-wing administrators seem to roll out the red carpets for large groups…
