Municipality of Naples – Casa, the council approves 4 resolutions to promote legality and inclusion
A pack of four dissolve that regulate the town house theme for historic knots. The municipal council approved it – on the initiative of the mayor Gaetano Manfredi – to outline a strategy aimed at restoring legality and at the same time saving the rights of the weaker social groups. The councilor for Urban Planning Lieto, the councilor for social policies Luca Trapanese, the councilor for Heritage Pier Paolo Baretta and the councilor for Legality Antonio De Iesu, working together with the predisposition of these innovative tools. In the next few days, the ways in which users will be able to access the services provided for by these measures will be announced.
THE RESOLUTIONS
First of all, the Manfredi junta has elaborated a series of objective criteria with which to dare to self-protect: in the following weeks, in fact, the “liberation” of illegally occupied apartments will be carried out as an execution denounced by the law having or certified by the execution of the «competent authority. There are about twenty cases ascertained by the Administration, including the condominium in Via Egiziaca in Pizzofalcone.
The provision of a one-off support was then approved to those to whom it will not be possible to provide support to remain in the occupied house until now: it is a voucher of about 5 thousand euros per family for a total of 500 thousand euros to be allocated in the budget .
In order to be included among the possible recipients of contributions or to be able to join the social condominium, the council intended to identify some objective indicators.
Therefore, the social condominium was born in Naples, a community welfare project – to the conception of which the municipal councilors Sergio D’Angelo and Rosario Andreozzi gave an active contribution – which intends to overcome the classic welfare models by adopting a participatory approach of condominiums to develop supportive social networks about mutual help. The concrete objective is to dare to the need linked to living while simultaneously promoting actions that favor social inclusion and promote forms of solidarity between people, families and generations. The first experimentation will be carried out in the structure of Via San Nicola a Nilo which since 1995 was established by the Municipality of Naples to meet the housing needs of the elderly alone in a protected context. The recipients of these projects are the elderly alone or in couples who are definitively assignees of the accommodation in the structure; next to them there are families in the condominium in conditions of particular socio-economic hardship and with families of social and socio-health fragility with particular reference to families with minor children. These citizens temporarily in the lodgings and sign the “Solidarity Charter of the Condominium” which contains the general rules for correct coexistence and undertake actions of solidarity and reciprocity starting from the resources of the fragility of which each is king. The activities may concern personalized support actions for specific inhabitants of the social condominium, such as the handling of practices and small commissions, the accompaniment to services or structures, the company in certain times of the day, as well as community-type actions such as moments of conviviality. , aggregation, leisure, shared service organizations.
I COMMENT
“I believe that this is the modern and fairest form of doing Welfare, guaranteeing people with fragility to be at the center of an engaging planning to overcome not only the problem of housing, but also that of loneliness”, The assessor’s comment Trapanese.
“It is an experiment of social innovation that opens up a new idea of residential accommodation in the historic center and feeds its traditional socio-cultural mixité, in a context of strong tourist pressure that is less and less hospitable for low-income groups.”, Adds the commissioner Glad.
For De Jesu “it is an effective approach to combine the restoration of legality and attention to fragility“.
For Baretta “The set of approved resolutions is an important first step in defining a housing policy: giving solutions to housing problems and dealing with difficult situations, within a framework of restoring legality, is the response to the particular emergency in which the our city “.