According to LavoriPubblici, the extraordinary government commissioner for Italy's national housing programme, Piano Casa 2026, has given the first concrete construction timeline for the scheme. Speaking at the National Conference of the Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators (CNAPPC), held Thursday 16 and Friday 17 July at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone in Rome, commissioner Felice Squitieri stated: "The first construction sites of Piano Casa will start between January and March of next year, even before Christmas if they prove particularly capable."
Per LavoriPubblici, the process follows Article 3 of Decree-Law No. 66/2026, which tasks the commissioner, in office until 31 December 2027, with an extraordinary procedure to identify unused or non-profitable public properties, granting powers to act by ordinance and to appoint a sub-commissioner. Squitieri described the sequence behind the target: the first formal act will be naming a sub-commissioner and technical team, while a survey of public residential building stock, known in Italy as ERP (edilizia residenziale pubblica), is already under way and will be followed by a mapping of state-owned assets.
On funding, Article 2 of the decree authorises the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to disburse contributions to implementing bodies through an agreement with INVITALIA as managing entity, using public notices to select proposals, for total spending of 970 million euros spread between 2026 and 2030. Squitieri indicated that the survey of state-owned property, seen as the step that unlocks the most uncertain part of the plan, will move forward after a meeting scheduled for the following week with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, saying "we are already holding meetings with the Regions and with the MEF."
Per LavoriPubblici, around twenty implementing measures still need to be issued across nearly all articles of the law, including the MIT-INVITALIA agreement, the public notices under Article 2, model agreements under Article 3, guidelines from the national municipalities association ANCI and a Revenue Agency measure for integrated building under Article 9. These will set access criteria, reference values for capped rents and control procedures, rather than the law's entry into force date. The law already contains one simplification: Article 8 extends the SCIA (certified notice of works start, a simplified permit procedure) to urban restructuring and to demolition and reconstruction projects included in the plan, allowing an increase of up to 20% in existing building volume or gross floor area.