Italy: Confindustria proposes plan for workers’ housing

Employers’ organisation Confindustria intends to harness public and private partnerships to launch a major housing construction and repurposing plan with the aim of addressing, at least in part, workers’ limited geographical mobility. Emanuele Orsini, who chairs the organisation, notes that around 50% of the jobs offered by companies cannot be filled because of a lack of housing “at rents compatible with the pay”. This is particularly true in the country’s major cities and wealthiest regions, w