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Financing of up to 100 million euros for housing, public spaces and sustainable mobility

Milan, 2 April 2021 - Important economic resources, up to 100 million euros, for the regeneration of the housing, social and environmental fabric in the Lorenteggio and Giambellino districts could come from the Government thanks to the participation of the Municipality of Milan in the tender of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport as part of the “National Innovative Program for Quality of Living (PINQua).

With this aim, the Council approved the proposal relating to the pilot project “Milan, metropolis of neighbourhoods. Infrastructure for habitability in the districts of the public city” which closely connects a series of projects already envisaged in the two districts of the south-west quadrant of the city.

The aims of the project that will compete for the ministerial tender concern the regeneration of the residential fabric of neighborhoods characterized by profiles of housing and socio-economic discomfort, the redevelopment and reorganization of the existing building stock intended for social housing, a capillary transformation of the network of public spaces which starts from the forthcoming entry into operation of the new M4 underground line which crosses and innervates the area concerned, the increase in the quality of the natural environment.

“In recent years, Milan has consolidated a clear strategy on ministerial funding – declares the city planning and green councilor Pierfrancesco Maran – concentrating them in some areas, such as Giambellino and Lorenteggio. Adding up they can make a difference and radically change some of the most important districts of our city. It is a double challenge: quality of living for residents and environmental sustainability for the entire Milanese community”.

In detail, the proposal concerns ten projects. The first seven require government funding and concern:

• demolition and complete reconstruction of the public housing buildings in via dei Giaggioli 7/9/11 and related works (48 million);
• surface improvements on the M4 line, western section (20 million);
• surface improvements on Line M4, Center section (23,5 million);
• surface improvements on Line M4 in the San Cristoforo area, footbridge landing area and cycle/pedestrian connection (2,8 million);
• MUST masterplan: redevelopment of via Olona and the Olona-Modestino-Solari cycle path (850.000 euros);
• Transport Plan Circular Line 90-91 - Reserved office from Piazza Zavattari to Piazza Stuparich (3,5 million);
• new Lorenteggio Library (1,35 million). The project is the result of the International Design Competition held in November 2017 as part of the Periphery Plan and will give life to a new concept library capable of combining the traditional functions of supporting study and reading with a great opening to the territory, providing workshops and spaces for active participation for the whole district.

For the public housing in via dei Giaggioli 7/9/11 - 210 'minimal houses' built after the war for the homeless - the project involves a complete renovation. The six buildings (grouped on three twin slats) will be demolished and rebuilt with a technologically advanced prefabrication solution for six floors above ground plus one underground: in particular pillars, floors, beams, facades and vertical walls will be built 'off-site', that is, elsewhere, and subsequently assembled and mounted on site. The planned project module is a two-room apartment, which can easily, through the movement of a few construction elements and therefore the combination of the basic module, become a studio apartment or, on the contrary, a three- or four-room apartment, depending on the housing needs. An advantageous solution in both economic and performance terms, which guarantees, in addition to energy efficiency, safety, ease of maintenance and maintenance over time.

“It's an opportunity – explains the Councilor for Social and Housing Policies Gabriele Rabaiotti – to build the social housing of tomorrow. Simple but quality buildings, energy efficient, accessible and easily reconfigurable in their composition, thanks to the adoption of the project module: the premises can become double or half depending on the families' needs. The project includes an 'off-site' technology, i.e. an intelligent prefabrication, in which the site is dedicated only to assembly and assembly: a rapid, safe, low environmental impact activity with minimum inconvenience. Lastly, this proposal amplifies the already existing redevelopment operation of the Giambellino-Lorenteggio area, adding resources and development opportunities in this working-class neighbourhood”.

The quality of living also necessarily depends on interventions on public space. For this reason, public housing projects have been combined with those for the redevelopment of streets, squares, sidewalks, cycle paths and green spaces, with the aim of increasing usable and more accessible space for all, safer for road users starting from pedestrians, families and cyclists.

"The strategy is to connect the districts of the western part of Milan to each other by enhancing the spaces of streets and squares affected by the M4 line - continues the Councilor for Mobility Marco Granelli - thus creating a quality path where public space helps to improve the quality of neighborhoods and of those who live there. A route that also connects these places with the city centre, starting from Piazza San Babila, along the Cerchia dei Navigli, Sant'Ambrogio, Sant'Agostino, Via Solari, Via Foppa, Via Lorenteggio, Via Frattini and Piazza Gelsomini, up to Piazza Tirana and Ronchetto sul Naviglio. If the M4 will make it possible to move faster from the city center to the neighborhoods by traveling underground, the space on the surface becomes more livable, creating a regenerated and quality space for everyone".

Three other interventions form an overall synergistic picture of the Project, although they are not the subject of a request for ministerial funding because they are already fully financed with own resources or other state or European sources:

• environmental redevelopment of the Lorenteggio district: new equipped green areas in via Giambellino 129. This is an area of ​​27 thousand square meters, abandoned for a long time which, after a reclamation operation, will be transformed into a cultural park focused on the relationship between man and nature in the within the European project Clever Cities;
• piazza Napoli-Giambellino cycle route;
• Via Strozzi 11 middle school (Zone 6): reconstruction of the school building.

The proposal will be presented to the Ministry, to be subsequently submitted to the funding assessment, by 15 April.