Rome, clan houses evacuated but no one wants to live there. “I won’t go in where the bosses were.” The legitimate assignees frightened by the offenders
It is the district with the highest concentration of public housing: a Tor Bella Monaca there are 5,567 apartments out of 6,753, equal to 82% of the total. Four thousand are from the municipality, 1,500 fromafterthe territorial company for public housing, ie the Lazio region. In terms of number of inhabitants and number of lodgings, only Zen in Palermo and San Basilio follow it, again in Rome. But it is on housing assignments that another red light is coming on.
Rome, clan houses evacuated but no one wants to live there
Because there are houses, the assignees are called. But they don’t want to go to Tor Bella Monaca. Least of all in those that until a handful of months ago were occupied by the bosses of the underworld. “Out of fear, of course. But in some cases it is the respect that family has earned in the neighborhood that is trying to react, they are trying to react. The situation is difficult »says Yuri Trombetti, president of the Heritage and House Commission common From Rome.
THE SITUATIONS
This is what happened to the five lodgings in via Santa Rita da Cascia, in tower 50. All freed from occupations last September seventeenth in a maxi operation by the police and prefecture. Houses that over the years have been occupied by the clans and then used as a base for the shop. Tower 50 had in fact become the operational base of some members of the Moccia family, the oldest and most powerful Camorra association that manages drug trafficking in the eastern quadrant of the capital. This is why the accommodations, after five months, are still free: “Two are currently being assigned,” assures the Department of Housing Policies of the Capital. But in the meantime the apartments in the “Tower of legality” were still empty yesterday. Because there is a lot of fear in the Torri district and the fight against the house is daily. There are also those who, returning after a short absence, found the apartment occupied. Once released, for fear of retaliation, he never set foot there and preferred to sleep in the car. It happened in via dell’Archeologia that in the neighborhood they call it “the little Scampia” for the very high rate of drug dealing.
THE MEDIATOR
In the assignment map, Tor Bella Monaca assigned 40 houses to be delivered. The conditional is a must: «We have repeatedly requested to have access to official data to have an updated map but no one has been able to provide this data. What is certain and what we are seeing is that the assignees discard the option of housing in this quadrant ”, confirms the Tenants Union of Rome. According to the assignment system, in fact, three different possibilities are offered in different neighborhoods. The lists are very long as well as the waiting times. Yet, the Tor Bella Monaca apartments are not an option: «They say no, we have to convince the new owners to enter. This is why we are more and more determined to establish the figure of the mediator, a means to help new condominiums settle in, ”adds Trombetti, president of the Heritage and House Commission of the municipality of Rome. «Behind the assignment of the Ater causes of the Tower of legality – he underlines – there is a very long work. The neighborhood is trying to reverse course but this system is very complicated. The same situation – adds Trombetti – we also recorded in Ostia and San Basilio where, however, the assignments are made more easily. In fact, it is the whole system that needs to be changed. The accommodations on the list are only in the outskirts of the city, but the houses from Gli are also in the Center, in Garbatella and in other districts ».
THE REBELLION
Meanwhile, however, the residents of the “little Scampia” are trying to rebel and establish a new order in the neighborhood. Tiziana Ronzio lives with 72 other families in tower 50. Right in the same 14-storey building that housed the members of the Moccia family for years: «In this neighborhood, as in others in Rome, there are many realities. There are not only offenders and drug dealers “says Tiziana who at night is a nurse in an intensive care unit and during the day is one of the volunteers of the TorPiùBella association:” What happens in some points and in some neighborhood towers we know it well. But there is also more and we are at the forefront. The waiting lists for assignments are long because so many need a home and there are some here. The last one arrived in the building – says Tiziana – I accompanied him floor by floor and I introduced him to the other volunteers of the association. Nobody should feel alone or isolated here, because it is the only way to fight the old system ».
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