South Tyrol's residential reform 2025: Revolution or step back for citizens?

South Tyrol's residential reform 2025: Revolution or step back for citizens?

Rom, Italien - in Rome there was an important meeting between the governors of South Tyrol and Trentino, Arno Kompatscher and Maurizio Fugatti last week, as well as the Italian regional minister Alberto Calderoli. During the meeting, a long -awaited draft for an autonomy reform was handed over, although the exact content has not yet been published, as reported. The reform is intended to regain lost skills for South Tyrol that have been weakened in recent years since a constitutional reform and judgments of the constitutional court.

important political steps

The draft law, the publication of which was already expected for the past summer, was delayed due to changed political circumstances. A final decision is expected at the earliest in 2027, as the Italian Council of Ministers and both chambers of parliament had to agree beforehand. The advancement for the reform found support in the government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who had clearly spoken out for this in 2022.

In addition, the state government under Kompatzer decided on Tuesday the 2025 residential reform, which provides for 100 percent conventional convention for newly designated building land. This represents a central point in the government agreement and aims to create and secure affordable living space. All measures of the residential reform, which also include the extension of the social binding and stricter controls in the misuse of living space, are now to be forwarded to the responsible legislative committees, as