The housing emergency is growing in Palermo, but the homes already illegally occupied by families who have brought in beds, kitchens, and wardrobes in buildings confiscated from the mafia and left “free” over the years by various administrations or never assigned to the municipality must be evicted. The long-awaited “regular” housing is only coming for 15 households (once the Prefecture carries out anti-Mafia checks on the members of the household). The remaining approximately 53 households are facing the threat of eviction without any alternative destination. “They did not apply for regularization – explains the councilor Fabrizio Ferrandelli, who has just issued a new resolution clarifying the homes taken from organized crime – . We are already preparing the eviction notices, which will be inevitable.”
In reality, the municipality has received a total of 132 regularization applications for illegal occupations of confiscated properties, but half of them do not belong to the municipality. The national agency has given the Municipality approximately 600 properties over the years, and many have become homes for households on the long list of homeless: there are about 2500 of them, and in the last five years, the trend of allocation was about 25 homes per year.
(A complete service by Connie Transirico in today’s edition of the Giornale di Sicilia in Palermo)
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