Homeless at the Galaxy, we 30 families ready to move – BBC

the housing crisis

Homelessness to the Galaxy, we
30 families ready to move

The mayor Merola: “We will ensure that this situation may create problems for residents’

BOLOGNA – The Municipality of Bologna is ready to strike a blow on the issue of emergency housing. After the last two days the problem of evictions is back on center stage, with Social Log that has captured six executions, it turns out the agreement to fix some troubled families living former residence Galaxy is considered “done, and already identified the top 30 who will enter. ”

FAMILIES – This would be 30 cores that are not from the occupations of the former Telecom and Via De Maria, but the list of emergency housing. Soon the City should make an official announcement on the matter, because the agreement is there and is being developed with Asp (the Public Company for personal services, ed) the project for the former Galaxy. Most likely the document Palazzo D’Accursio will be made public “within a week”.

THE MAYOR – “We will avoid that this situation could fall in the balance social area, with adequate management and information.” It is the commitment that you take the mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola, than entering the former Galaxy of families from emergency housing. In this match, “we will follow the rules for access to facilities for emergency housing. For the Galaxy if the deal will fail, as well as for other properties that will enter our availability, “he wrote the mayor in a letter to the former city councilor M5s Federica Salsi (letter that the same Salsi public on his blog) . “The properties that we are dealing with are not intended to occupants, but to those people that social services will certify as people in need. Who has the right to enter will not enter, as those who have illegally occupied without authority, “points out the mayor. In short, “it is not an amnesty”, will have accommodation “only those in need, respecting the classification lists for the housing crisis,” Merola marks. And just trying to avoid problematic impacts on the residents of the area near the former Galaxy. For Salsi, however, “the answer is a contradiction in every sentence. He will not enter who squatted without authority. Then there are titles to commit crimes and squat? “.

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