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Challenges in Rome: Housing Crisis & Slum Dwellers Exclusion

Italy's housing crisis affects citizens with Rome facing slum issues due to lack of public housing. Learn more about the situation and the lives of excluded individuals in Rome.

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Challenges in Rome: Housing Crisis & Slum Dwellers Exclusion

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  1. ROME SLUMS

  2. HOW APART OF CITIZENS EXCLUDED FROM THE REAL ESTATE AND THE RENTAL MARKET • Thelastdecade in Italy ==> housingcharacterized : • ==> chrisis of publicbuilding • ==>increasingdifficultiestorentor buy a house • 1984-2004 publichousingproductiondecreased • Stock of PublicHousing(Dol andHaffner 2010): • Italy :4% - France: 17% Scandinavian countries:30%

  3. Disposal of PublicBuildings • 1984 => 34000 subsidizedhouses • 2004 => 1900 unitsbuilt in Italy • Chrisis of PublicBuildings Renting a house in market ITALY : %18,8 GERMANY: 57,3% NETHERLANDS 47,3% FRANCE :40,7 -> (Similarto rate of bank loan) • (peopleareforcedtofind a house in therental market) • 1999-2008 DysfuntionalItalian market rentalpricesincreasebetween 170% - 145% in ROME • (higherthanothercities of Italy)

  4. MarchtoSeptember 2010 • Metropoliz (ex-factory), • Via del Policlinico (a buildingsquattedbyaround 100 familyunits), the “hole” of Afghansrefugees in Ostiense Train Station, • a squatters’ building in ViadiCasalDemerode, • ViaAppiaNuova (smallslumwhere 20 Romanianpeoplelive), • theex-Embassy of Somalia (occupiedby Somali refugees), • an informalsettlement of Eritreanpeople in PonteMammolo, • CampoFarnia, CasaledelleCarrozze, smallinformalsettlementsalongtheriversTiberandAniene, alongViaCristoforoColomboandViaPrenestina.

  5. CLASSIFICATION OF SLUMS • Type of settlement; • Main characteristics of the dwellers (for example: refugees, migrants, organized groups for housing rights, etc); • Regularity or irregularity of Visa (the majority of slums dwellers are migrants); • Temporality: which has to be considered as the expected time of stay in the city of Rome and depends on the visa, • the working conditions and the political situation of the home country.

  6. MAIN POINTS • typology of settlement: • squatted building or factory and shantytown.

  7. The HOLE of Afghan Refugees • Type of settlement: Shantytown • Number of dwellers: Around 150 people • Nationality: Afghans • Type of Visa: Theyareallpoliticalrefugees andthemajority of themhave a protectionvisa of 3 years. • Temporality: Medium-high

  8. The HOLE of Afghan Refugees • Since 2005 –settle aroundOstiensetrain station • the excavation of a construction site • shacks and installed tents -donatedby humanitarian associations • 23rd October 2009 ====> evicted

  9. The HOLE of Afghan Refugees • now live in reception centres • But according to Eva Gilmore, of YoMigro, they continue to arrive the station • an arrival and transit place for refugees from abroad also • vicious circle

  10. Metropoliz • Type of settlement: Squatted factory • Number of dwellers: Around 250 people • Nationality: Italians, Moroccans, Roma, Eritrean, Peruvian, Albanian, Sudanese • Type of Visa: Depending of the nationality • Temporality: High

  11. Metropoliz • The ex-factory hasn’t been used for 20 years • the squatters entered – extreme deterioration • for the first six months the squatters lived all together • divide the area in small plots • built his own house in the plot assigned • a big warehouse squatted-100 Roma ppl evicted in November 2009

  12. Şükriye Özkan • http://riccardobudini.photoshelter.com/image/I00007es8592eiZs • http://www.thelocal.it/20140722/romes-slum-dwellers-demand-proper-homes • http://www.rc21.org/conferences/amsterdam2011/edocs/Session%2029/RT29-2-Agostini.pdf • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqRKUbg4r8 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uPT9O_fqs • http://riccardobudini.photoshelter.com/image/I00007es8592eiZs

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