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As long as there is home, there is hope

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Try to answer this request: what are the essential material conditions to be able to live in a city?

Think of the essential. Leave aside for a moment the cultural liveliness, the nightlife, the services, the environment, the job opportunities.

The first assumption it is certainly not being in danger of life.

The images of the past few days will remain etched in our minds forever Afghan citizens fleeing Kabul. Safety for one’s own safety and for that of loved ones is certainly the first prerequisite.

The second element essential to be able to live in a city is to have a roof over your head. A house. Your own refuge in which to retire at night.

For 50% of the world population, in 2050 according to United Nations data we will reach 68%, their home is made with “makeshift materials”, sometimes with waste materials recovered from garbage and very often the roofs are in Eternit , that fiber cement material containing asbestos, extremely dangerous for health and now prohibited by law.

We are talking about that half of the world‘s population living in slums, or barrios, favelas, shanty towns, however, in informal cities, most of the time with very serious public hygiene problems due to the lack of suitable sewage systems and drinking water.

Seb Touissaint is a French-English artist and for the past eight years he has worked in about twenty slums around the world. His project is called “Share the Word”, share the word. He asks the humble people of a place to point to a word that is meaningful to them, which he then paints in an extraordinary way on the neighborhood wall.

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Last year he was our guest in Favara. I asked him if slums, favelas were the problem or the solution for him? Many believe it is the problem of a sick capitalist society in which the gap is too wide between those who are rich and those who are poor (and they are also right), many others say they are the solution, because where would all these people sleep if there were no favelas?

Seb just told me that the most recent favelas are the worst, because there is no minimum livability condition, while the more long-lived ones manage to improve some aspects related to viability and the supply of water and other resources. Seb even told us that in some parts of the world people are still sold for $ 90. Slaves. Today in 2021.

All this is serious and intolerable and in addition to being reported to continue to maintain a high level of awareness requires one global effort to find new solutions.

Fortunately, many around the world are asking themselves about new ways of living, living and being together: this is the case for example of the Danish architects of Effekt, coivolti by Ikea together with Space10, a research group with the mission of improving the quality of daily life for people and for the planet. “The Urban Village Project”, rethinks the way in which we will design, finance and build our homes, our neighborhoods, our cities in the future. The goal is to bring cheaper homes to the market in which to live sustainably and try to have the best quality of collective life. At the heart of the project is the concept of “Community” because above all, the quality of our relationships often determines how happy we are and “living together and in harmony” preserves our health and implements our happiness.

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“The house we dream of, not the one we find” is Homers’ mission, the innovative Italian response to the theme of living, to design cohousing together through customized, cheaper, more ecological and more beautiful housing solutions. It is called instead Homes4All the innovative startup with a social impact which favors urban regeneration through a network of private investors.

Housing First is the network of public and private organizations that for years work in the “Homelessness” sector and who since 2014 have been carrying out housing projects for homeless people with passion and courage.

Because as long as there is home, there is hope.

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