Alessandra Todde and Piero Comandini (the first is President of the Region and the second of the Regional Council) against Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. The point of contention: the save home. Or rather, the adaptation in a Sardinian (legislative) key of the provision wanted by the leader of the League with the aim of remedying small construction and building irregularities (not abuses).
To make it applicable, the Island had to adopt the national legislation. But during the process in the commission before it reached the Chamber, the option – provided for in the Salvinian text – of making studio apartments with a minimum surface area of 20 square meters habitable was rejected. In Sardinia, the limit of 28 remains. Furthermore, the minimum height of a building must be 2.70 meters (the national one provided for 2.40). Changes that the minister did not like. Today he wrote to Todde, to say: «It is necessary to adapt the building regulations to favor young people and workers».
An interference that the governor and Comandini did not appreciate: «It is very serious that a minister of the Republic intervenes on a regional provision, among other things still in progress, making observations on construction matters, where Sardinia has primary competence. It is an unprecedented fact, no representative of the national Government has ever tried to interfere in our history of autonomy».
Instead of studying measures to try to stem the high rents, Todde argues, "the remedy that the Government is proposing is to allow the habitability of real niches in which people who cannot afford to pay for a house worthy of the name will have to live. Thinking that a 20 square meter room, 2.40 meters high, can be equated to a home, is simply madness. This is why the Region and the Regional Council have intervened on the Salva Casa regulations, to restore dignity to people."
