In the capital there are currently 16 thousand families waiting for a popular housing. The data arrived only after the Municipality of Rome updated the ranking last December, after months and months of waiting, and in its dramatic nature it attests to ahousing emergency which over time has become a real structural problem. It’s a shame that even in the face of these numbers there are those around the Capitol, instead of resolving the emergency, who continue to do favors and guarantee preferential channels to those who act illegally. All in defiance of those who, however, respect the law.
The mayor’s sympathy is nothing new Roberto Gualtieri and of his council for whom occupa homes. And so the latest news shouldn’t be surprising special announcement published specifically to lend a hand to these people. The building in question, at this time, is a building in via del Porto Fluviale, in the Ostiense area. It is a disused barracks that the Municipality of Rome purchased free of charge from the Air Force and then gave it a new life in the name, as stated in the documents, of “social mixitè”. “The building has been occupied by approximately 56 families since 2003,” we read. Families who entered twenty years ago have no longer left and are now being regularized.
IlGiornale has come into possession of the specific documents regarding the trying in question which includes a timetable expiring in 2026 where the construction of places of aggregation for the occupants is also envisaged, with an anti-violence desk, park, circus school and photovoltaic system to honor the green policy so dear to the Democrats. The accommodation, as we can read in the document, “will be included in the ERP (Public Residential Building, ed.)” heritage and, therefore, it would be up to the first in line ranking waiting for a council house, but this is not the case. “This agreement – we read again – provides for the reintegration into the building of the families who currently occupy it”.
All this at what price? 11 million euros. A sum that the Capitoline council subtracted from the Pnrr funds for the renovation of the homes of the abusive. In short, to add insult to injury. Not only, in fact, these people could not be included in the rankings, having committed an offense by occupying a home, but the Roman dems have even decided to bypass the legal technicality and give a new home with taxpayers’ money. “It is a procedure that I would not hesitate to define as shameful: it is inconceivable to redevelop a building with public funds and then assign such accommodation to the occupants. All in defiance of the regional regulation which the left, in order to satisfy the illegal occupants, overrides through a ploy” , Laura Corrotti, Fratelli d’Italia regional councilor and president of the urban planning, housing and waste policies commission, declared to the Giornale.
But who lives in this building occupied for twenty-one years? The documents, which ilGiornale has come into possession of, show all the family units present inside the building and the date of start of occupation: most have been living illegally since 2003, with families settling in the following years. There are thirteen nationalities within the building, with a total of around 150 people of which only nineteen are Italian. The houses are occupied mainly by Moroccans with sixteen families and forty people, followed by Ecuadorians, thirty-four in fourteen families. The other large portion of occupiers comes from Peru and then Senegal, Pakistan and Romania. “A fact that certifies how the left is a victim of the housing movements”, continues Corrotti specifying that “this announcement will have to be examined, there is little clarity“.
The data in the possession of the newspaper also shows that the majority of occupants it does not correspond to “fragile nuclei”, the first requirement for obtaining public housing. In fact, 75% are occupied by adults, while only 25% are occupied by infants and adults. There’s more: 32% of homes are occupied by one or two people. In short, the special announcement by Gualtieri would seem to be just the umpteenth gift to those who make arrogance a lifestyle. A gift that the dem mayor couldn’t even give. “Gualtieri would no longer have the possibility of continuing to provide accommodation for other occupants but no one pays attention to this”, concludes Corrotti, specifying that “we must send a message of legality and stop the proliferation of illegal construction”.