Rome, occupations, 74 the buildings censed by the Municipality

Seventy-four buildings scattered between the suburbs and the semi-central belt of the city: ranging from disused offices to former schools to buildings of institutions that have now ceased or are in liquidation. According to the data provided by the housing struggle movements, they are occupied by about 5 thousand families for a total of almost 20 thousand people, often nuclei characterized by economic hardship and social marginalization. It is the map of the buildings occupied for residential purposes in the capital, registered last year by resolution 50 of the then Capitoline commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca. In the text, the Capitol identified a short list of 16 properties that had to be evacuated as a priority as they were classified as "unsafe with a risk to the safety of the occupants". Among these there is also the building in via Curtatone, evacuated 10 days ago generating an infinite number of controversies for the ways in which the action of the police took place and for the lack of an alternative housing solution for all. the former occupiers, mostly political refugees. The Tronca resolution took note of a 2014 text of the Lazio Region, which allocated 197 million euros for the exit from the housing emergency, of which 160 million for the capital. The regional provision envisages allocating these funds to "acquire and / or recover private properties at a controlled price" for families "in the ranking for the assignment" of public housing on the Campidoglio "on the basis of tenders between 2000 and 2012", for those who stayed in residences for the housing emergency and for those who reside "in buildings improperly used for housing". The latter category includes occupations for residential purposes. However, these funds are still unused at the moment: last year Ater made three calls to find properties to be allocated to the occupants but they went deserted. So the Region, on May 31 last, passed a resolution to "start the implementation of the housing emergency program" by allocating the first 40,5 million euros directly to the Capitol and communicated on June 6 to the Municipality the request to sign or modify the deed. But the Capitol has not yet responded to this communication. The list drawn up by the Capitol includes buildings occupied, in some cases for over 10 years, such as the headquarters of CasaPound all'Esquilino, a building in front of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, former offices on Via Collatina inhabited for years by Ethiopians and Eritreans, a former barracks in via del Porto Fluviale now decorated on the outside by one of the best known signatures of street art. And then disused schools in via Herbert Spencer and via George Sorel both at Collatino, the pavilion with the old washhouse of the former psychiatric hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà, stable in via di Tor Bella Monaca, via di Valle Aurelia, via di Portonaccio, al Quarticciolo and Centocelle.

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Rome, occupations, 74 the buildings censed by the Municipality