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Rabaiotti: "Small initiatives are great resources for animating the city." Friday 4th public meeting to illustrate the project to the city
 
Milan, September 28 2019 – Social, cultural, aggregation, sporting, training and even entrepreneurial activities with particular regard to innovative experimental forms linked to the reference neighborhood. It's online."Values ​​at stake”  the new tender for the assignment of spaces for projects, services and businesses in the city's neighborhoods which is also aimed at micro, small and medium-sized productive enterprises, as well as non-profit associations, non-profit organisations, social cooperatives and foundations.
 
The notice, which will remain open until November 15, brings into play 17 spaces, currently unused, on the ground floors of public housing blocks in various neighborhoods of the city, including Chiesa Rossa, Conchetta, Moncucco, Solari, Barona, Cagnola, Isola , Risorgimento, Gallaratese, Morivione and Garibaldi. The dimensions also vary from a minimum of 16 square meters to a maximum of almost 170. They will be rented for 6 years, with the exception of the three rooms in Via Solari, whose contracts will be valid for three years. The value of the rent will be reduced by 70% for non-profit associations, by 10% for businesses and will remain unchanged compared to market values ​​only for the space in via Garibaldi.
 
The councilor for social and housing policies Gabriele Rabaiotti will illustrate the details of the tender at a public meeting aimed at all interested parties which will be held next Friday, 4 October, at the Assolombarda headquarters in via Pantano 9, starting from 16,30pm ,XNUMX.  
 
The spaces are intended as laboratories in which the activity carried out implies openness to the neighborhood and the city, thus bringing into play an attractive capacity for the inhabitants of the area, involving in particular realities that deal with work activities aimed at young people, and especially to NEETs (young people between 19 and 25 who are neither studying nor working), promoting responsible consumption and encouraging the relationship between citizens and producers.
Whoever is the winner, therefore, will have to develop activities capable of strengthening social cohesion and representing a daily presence spread across the territory. 
 
To contribute to the sustainability of the projects, non-profit associations can also launch initiatives complementary to the project, such as convivial areas, refreshment points and bars, small commercial and artisanal activities, as long as they are consistent with the established purposes and do not prevail in terms of dedicated space . 
 
“Our effort – explains Rabaiotti – aims to bring back not only new services and new activities close to public housing, but also spaces that can be used directly by the inhabitants who in many cases already work actively and are committed to making the places where they live better. . The small initiatives that take place in the city's neighborhoods are an important resource, which must be supported and nurtured. It is not always necessary to turn around entire neighborhoods, wait or look for mega financing or a large operation. I think about how important the commercial activities are in many streets of Milan, the community centers aimed at the young or the elderly, the study rooms and after-school clubs. The variety of functions present in the same context creates a richer and safer city and this is what we are building."
 
So far, in the last 5 years, over 80 spaces have been assigned between profit and non-profit projects. In the last three years alone, before this last public notice, four others had already been launched ("Neighborhood Constellations", "Space at the outskirts", "Looks elsewhere in peripheral areas" and "Neighbourhood Space"), through which 44 locals returned to live.