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Milan, July 27 2020 - The City Council approved by majority the resolution with which the deadlines for adhering to the voluntary debt repayment plan aimed at tenants of the Municipality's public housing managed by MM are reopened for another year. After having received the green light from the Council last May, with this last step the proposal is definitively adopted by the Administration.

The recovery plan considers the arrears accrued from 2003 until 31 December 2016, in addition to the billing called "Straordinaria 2016" and related formal notice, whose payment deadlines had been deferred to 2017, for a total of approximately 180 million euros , and provides for the possibility of deferring payments up to a maximum of 120 installments, each of which cannot exceed one eighth of the monthly income of the household in question, as established by the council resolution of October 2017.

The deadlines for joining the plan, opened in May 2018 and whose closure had already been extended, closed on 30 June 2019. They are now reopened for another year, starting from the publication on the Municipality website of one specific notice for new expressions of interest (publication which must take place within 45 days of approval of the resolution).

The resolution also modifies some technical details to broaden the range of potential beneficiaries. In particular, ownership of partial shares of properties will no longer be considered an obstacle to membership and the possibility of accessing extraordinary installment payments will be extended to further categories, previously not admitted, such as holders of terminated contracts or their heirs. Illegal occupants, those who have lost their qualifications due to the loss of the requirements, as well as renters of properties intended for different uses, are excluded from the agreed debt recovery procedure.

During the first year of the opening of the terms, over 8.600 expressions of interest were collected from defaulting tenants, for a total amount of intercepted debt equal to approximately 75 million euros.