Meloni relaunches on the house: “War against illegal occupations”. Here is the city map

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The house had been one of the themes of the electoral campaign of the centre-right and of the Brothers of Italy in particular. Today, with the superbonus affair at the center of heated debate after the intervention of the executive, Giorgia Meloni relaunches it as a priority by announcing “a war against illegal occupations: let’s start with mackerel”.

In Rome, 7,000 untitled occupied apartments

A phenomenon that has taken on considerable dimensions throughout Italy, with thousands of apartments and spaces illegally occupied, both publicly and privately owned. In the city of Rome alone – according to data from Confedilizia – there are almost 7,000 occupied dwellings and 92 buildings, of which 66 are for residential use. In total there would be almost 12 thousand people who occupy a space illegally. Also in the capital there is a building that appears to have been occupied for 14 years.

The situation from North to South

In Catania there would be about a hundred buildings no longer available to their legitimate owners, as in Genoa (200) and Palermo which has 17 out-of-use housing complexes for a total of 3,000 apartments. Worrying picture also in Turin (with 24 occupied buildings), Reggio Calabria (110 social housing) and also Venice, with 19 occupations and 14 “invasions” of land.

Mapping of Piantedosi

The justice machine has not always remained at a standstill, as evidenced by an eviction plan approved in April 2022 by the former prefect of Rome Matteo Piantedosi who surveyed dozens of properties in the vast real estate area of ​​the capital, including prestigious ones, object, among the other, of occupations burdened by preventive seizure and of other properties affected by a release order from the judicial authority. The list, among others, included a building occupied for years by the political organization Casapound, an entire building already used by Atac, a former barracks occupied by a hundred families since June 2003, an INPS office and a former industrial area.

And also “Spin Time”, a historic residential occupation in the central area of ​​the city that made the news due to the clamor aroused by the gesture of the Pope’s almoner cardinal, Konrad Krajewski who personally intervened in the building – where about 400 people were left without electricity – to reattach the meters.