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Exemption for deserving and frail citizens who illegally occupy homes: disabled, over 65, asylum seekers and holders of international protection, families in precarious housing conditions and those who are followed by social services, will be able to request connection to the water, electricity and gas and obtaining residence because people’s dignity comes first. The decision of the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri. Yesterday he signed a directive following the City Council’s voted motion in June.

The provision essentially provides for a derogation from article 5 of the Lupi decree (number 47 of 2014) which provides for a ban on residence, connection to public services for anyone illegally occupying a property and the impediment for 5 years to participate in the procedures for the allocation of public housing. The state law establishes an exception: The mayor, in the presence of minors or persons deserving of protection, can give provisions in derogation to protect the hygienic-sanitary conditions. And in the directive, the mayor of Rome refers precisely to this right of derogation recognized to the first citizens.

Maurizio Lupi, who signed the decree when he was Minister of Infrastructure in the Renzi government, was very critical. From the left they have given us lessons in legality for years – the leader of Noi moderati argues controversially – but evidently they were only words. Granting residence and connection to utilities to those who illegally occupy houses does not mean helping fragile families. Instead, they should receive public housing systematically denied to those who are entitled to it because they are illegally occupied.

Gualtieri keeps away from controversy. And he claims his initiatives to combat housing problems. Rome Capital for compliance with the law. Together with the other institutions, in recent months we have given a strong impetus to the restoration of legality, resolving problems of years in a peaceful and shared way and doubling the financial effort for the right to housing. However, for Gualtieri, an exception was necessary. Many people, victims of severe precarious conditions, need immediate help. We felt the duty to protect those fundamental rights guaranteed by the recognition of residence. So that those who live on the margins are not pushed even further into despair. The derogation would be transitory, relating to the phase preceding the relocation.

Simonetta Matone’s comment is very harsh, former candidate from the center-right to deputy mayor of Rome at the last municipal and today deputy of the League: Gualtieri with a municipal majority act is thinking of violating a law. inadequate for the role of mayor. He rewards those who occupy illegally because they are fragile with the connection to utilities. And the fragile ones in the ranking are Serie B? We witness shameful hand flicks of a left hand to the fruit. Instead, they applaud the decision of the Municipality of the capital Pd, Demos and the List of Zingaretti: An inclusive and supportive act.

The Nonna Roma association, the mutual aid desk that assists families in difficulty, celebrates: After years of complaints against the injustice of a rule that excludes citizens from health services or the possibility of obtaining a subsidy – the representatives write in a note – Rome is the first city in Italy that allows thousands of families to obtain residence in the where they live and to be reinserted in the rankings of public housing. A small step towards a fairer city.