Salvini's response to the housing crisis: Incorrect data, seek government help'.

Matteo Salvini has found himself in the crosshairs of the Confedilizione organization. The president of the Italian Union of Property Owners, Giorgio Spaziani Testa, challenged the data provided by the deputy prime minister on affordable but empty public housing units.

"According to the minister," writes Spaziani Testa, "there are at least 70,000 of them, but this does not include housing units in Rome, whose administration has not even bothered to inform the Ministry of their number (perhaps because it has no idea). "

The president of the organization calculates: "If we add to this at least 30,000 illegally occupied apartments, apartments where people (often rich) live but have not paid rent for decades, as well as housing waiting for''reconstruction, it is possible to estimate the potential availability of more than 150,000 housing units'.

In other words, that's more than double what Salvini indicated. "With this picture," says Spaziani Testa, "any hope of holding private landlords responsible for real or perceived housing problems sounds ridiculous and unreasonable. Short-term rental restrictions?