In Rome, a Christmas truce for evictions. The request of the trade unions alderman Zevi
Stop evictions during the Christmas season. This is the request made by the unions of tenants and inhabitants of Rome and Lazio Sicet, Sunia and Uniat, directly to the councilor for housing policies Tobia Zevi.
Emiliano Guarneri, Paolo Rigucci and Patrizia Behmann – in order to guarantee the stay at home for fragile families under eviction during the Christmas period, we requested urgent intervention by the councilor with the Prefect – reads the joint note signed by the secretaries the legs to the recent motion approved in the city council “.
“The evictions also planned for the very first days of the year risk being carried out – the unions warn – if the usual ‘truce’ is not proclaimed, which has always prevented the granting of public force until mid-January. The commissioner received the seriousness of the situation and undertook to represent it to the Prefect as a matter of urgency. The days of the so-called truce in any case used to find solutions to emergency situations and will be of duration, with social partitions “.
Tomorrow, Wednesday 22 December, there will be a meeting between Union Tenants and Councilor Zevi. “On our part there is the will to go beyond emergency solutions – the Roman secretary Guido Lanciano explains to Roma Today – because suspending 30/40 days each time, without alternatives, is not useful. We will put solutions on the table of the councilor concrete, we will tell how and where to find the things to allocate to those who lose their homes. And the Municipality must be an active part of this table “.
As is known, on 1 July 2021 the Prefect of Rome Matteo Piantedosi had announced the resumption of eviction executions, for a total of about 4,500 ordinances to be completed until summer 2022. A serious social emergency, especially in the absence of housing alternatives for the evicted. The tenant unions and the housing and housing rights movements have been organizing anti-eviction pickets for months and are appealing to the UN to obtain the suspension of the ordinances. On 9 December the Capitoline assembly approved, with 27 votes in favor, a motion signed by Fermariello, Corbucci, Battaglia, Converti del Pd, Ciani di Demos, Luparelli of Sinistra Civica Ecologista and Biolghini di Roma Futura in which the junta is committed to open a discussion with the Prefect and the social partners involved “to arrive at a graduation of evictions for the weakest people”.