Italy needs 150,000 homes a year, Assocasa chief says

Gaetano Vassallo, national president of Assocasa, said Italy needs about 150,000 additional homes per year and called the government's Piano Casa a useful but incomplete response, according to ANSA.

He spoke in Naples at the national conference "Abitare il futuro, la casa come diritto, la città come comunità," according to ANSA.

Campania has more than 40,000 applications for public housing, according to Il Mattino. Acer Campania plans to recover about 1,000 homes for the most urgent cases. Assocasa's Campania secretary reported that about 45,000 public-housing units require maintenance.

Separate housing research cited by Il Sole 24 Ore estimates demand for roughly 151,000 homes per year, concentrated mainly in major cities. It puts annual demand at about 39,300 homes in Rome, 34,600 in Milan, 15,300 in Turin, 13,100 in Bologna and 10,700 in Florence.

The reports do not provide the methodology behind the 150,000-home figure.