A meeting of over two hours held "in a fully constructive atmosphere" between the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi and the Minister of the Interior, Marco Minniti.
At the end of the conversation, the two issued a joint note which reads that: "they agreed on the importance of a interinstitutional collaboration, such as the one already underway with the Region, to address the issue of the housing emergency, migration and reception policies, establishing priorities in compliance with the principles of legality and humanity".
After the eviction of the building in Via Curtatone, occupied by 400 Eritrean refugees, the time seems to have come to act.
Several proposals presented by the first citizen of the capital including the request for make barracks available "Those that also have service accommodation and which therefore could be adapted to lower waiting lists" and another relating to the reactivation of the real estate market: "In Rome we have over 200 thousand vacant and unsold houses - explained Raggi - this on the one hand it would make it possible to break down waiting lists and on the other to reactivate an economic sector that has been in serious crisis for several years".
Minister Minniti for his part, based on what is written in the press release, “he explained the guidelines in the process of being defined by the ministry, founded on two pillars, one national and one territorial starting from the Metropolitan Cities to address the problem of evictions and the issue of social fragility".
According to the latest rumors, the mayor of Rome could soon formalize the request to assign barracks and forts to local administrations with "relative resources to redevelop them, make them available" and "give them to families" in difficulty, giving priority to fragile people and family members in the ranking for social housing.
