Naples, Piazza Garibaldi: despite the interventions of people encamped at the station
More and more often a Naples, in the city, there are men living on the street everywhere. Every corner is a shelter, with the arrival of the frost the shelters of the clochard despite the interventions, they seem to have multiplied.
By now it has become almost a clear and bad habit, to find on the sidewalk of Corso Novara, near the Naples Central Station, an open-air dormitory.
The entrance to the Cafeteria, every day is crossed by lines of people, many pass by these parts and yet no one really sees them. That of the homeless has become one real community, stretched out on blankets and mattresses placed in the street or on the benches at the edge of the carriageway.
We are faced with a deterioration that has long to be reported by the residents of the area, resigned to a condition of unlivability that worsens day by day.
“The degradation of Piazza Garibaldi is part of the place, we just can’t get rid of it despite the many efforts”, a resident of the area cuts short. Another resident joins the complaint: “Unfortunately, living in absolute decay, traclochard, street vendors of socks and lighters, with tourists looking out of the windows and seeing scenes of decay before their eyes.”
The mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi in the balance sheet of his 70 as mayor he had focused on the clochard problem and had stated that days, together with the councilor for social policies, from Trapani, are trying to tackle the problem in a very energetic way.
But at the moment it is not solved. The homeless is a complicated issue as explained by the president of the IV Municipality, Maria Caniglia: «From the first day I took office, we have implemented a series of actions that could reduce the phenomenon. -explained President Caniglia-. It is clear that we are talking about a social problem for which we immediately activated our territorial social services with the support of the central services as well “.
The municipality last month intervened together with social services, local police and central social services on this issue several times, bringing a minor back to a facility and an elderly person to the “Della Palma” facility.
«The attention on our part and the administration itself is maximum. With constancy, commitment, we can imagine a president of the psychological accompaniment and social reintegration program as pointed out by the IV Municipality, Maria Caniglia-. These areas need to be made alive and livable. We love each other every day for liveability works, we have strengthened the sweeping interventions even twice a day despite the difficulties of the pandemic, the effort of the operators is the maximum state. However, it is necessary to move together in a path that aims to increase the number of beds in the structures. We are also working for a redevelopment of the area aiming at the promotion of the whole area ».