In Milan, public housing, tenants take care of maintenance, gardening, and cleaning.

There are over 17 public housing units, owned by the municipality and self-managed by Milanese tenants. In exchange, they receive a discount on their condominium fees. But above all, they live in cleaner homes.

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ordinary maintenance of public housing for tenants in Milan

ORDINARY MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC HOUSING –

While in Rome it turns out that 85 percent of the tenants of municipal houses don't pay a single euro in rent , and often live right in the historic center, in Milan the self-management of public housing is being successfully experimented with.

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PUBLIC HOUSING MILAN –

The experiment is not a small one. It involves over 17 apartments, owned by ALER (the Lombardy Residential Building Company) and MM (the company that controls the Milan subway), and rented, according to the rankings, to Milanese families.

PUBLIC HOUSING MAINTENANCE –

The agreement between the administration and residents is very convincing. In practice, tenants, who must not default on their rent payments, self-manage a series of services . These include routine maintenance (and in fact, all parking spaces are clearly visible), waste disposal, gardening , and cleaning of stairwells and shared spaces. In some cases, contracts for heating systems are even being renegotiated. In exchange for self-management, tenants of Milan's municipal housing receive a discount on condominium fees . But most importantly, they live in better-maintained and managed homes.

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