Moderate-rent housing
One of the City's objectives is to promote access to moderate-rent housing to benefit people with low to moderate incomes.
The allocation of moderate-rent housing within certain buildings owned by the City and its Pension Fund is entrusted to the Gestione Immobiliare per Istituzionali SA (GiPi SA).
The rules for allocation have been defined within a regulation approved in 2019.
Regolamento per l'assegnazione degli alloggi di proprietà del Comune di Lugano
Who is entitled
The Regulations clearly and unambiguously define the allocation of apartments and favor low and middle incomes. It sets (cumulative) conditions for being eligible for housing, including the determining income (ascertained on the basis of the submission of the taxation notification of all persons who will occupy the housing), which cannot exceed the limit of 4 times the amount of the total annual rent at the time of the conclusion of the contract, and 6 times the same amount during the tenancy.
How to apply for moderate-rent housing
The appropriate form to be delivered or mailed to the Gestione Immobiliare per Istituzionali SA (GiPi SA) must be filled out with an up-to-date excerpt from the Ufficio Esecuzioni (Debt Enforcement Office) dated no more than 3 months, the last tax assessment notice, and the current year's salary statements for all members of the applicant's household.
The City's support for tenants in need
The City can contribute, through the Regolamento sulle prestazioni sociali in ambito comunale, to punctually support citizens who are in a situation of special economic hardship of a temporary nature.
Aid is also provided for extraordinary housing-related expenses - defined in the Regulations - that fall under the notion of moderate rent and coincides with the following maximum values:
CHF 1,420 monthly including incidental expenses (t.c.) for single persons
CHF 1,670 monthly t.c. for two-person households
CHF 2,004 monthly t.c. for households consisting of three or more persons
For more information and to submit applications, it is necessary to contact the Ufficio intervento sociale.
The website homegate.ch may present offers of apartments that fall under the concept of moderate-rent housing.
The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.
The original version is the page in Italian.