Treviso’s facts again show the extreme precariousness and crazyness which migrant citizens are forced to live in. It has never happened that that workers are left without a place where to live. In the rich and wealthy Treviso, but also in many other cities and territories, migrant workers have to find a place where to live without anyone helping them. they often have to live in dirty, abandoned places far from racists and unintereted people. There are in fact many who do not care about others apart from tehmselves and they simply ignore the problems. Living without a place where to stay, without the fundamental need anyone needs, is impossible, unbearable. In our job, this is the problem we always have to face. Housing is not only a migrants emergency but everyone and no solutions were found in the last ten years.
People talk about it, politicians talk about projects, associations, groups, the church try all to answer to human beings basic needs but this is not enough. There is no complex political intervention.
In Italy the problem is faced as an emergency and there’s no interest in solving this with structural plans or interventions. In Italy housing politics do not exist nor central, or local or regional ones.
An example, between 1945 and 1978 in Italy only the 10% of houses market was increased by public lodgings, in UK it was the 63% and in Holland the 51%. Recently housing policies have priviledged the buying of estates, the 3/4 of the whole population bought a house.
In Italy flats or houses leased are only the 20% of the whole, whereas in EU the 33.8% according to Caritas data.
Italian and migrant citizens whose income is average cannot afford to rent a flat since expenses and rents are too high. Migrants are also cut out from public housing.
Also councils, which are willing to find some sort of solutions to the problem, leave the matter to social affairs councillors, to immigration services or social services whose solutions remain precarious.
First accomodation centres are run in a way that they become stable solutions instead of temporary ones, of coarse they do not solve migrants problems. Centres are for adult migrant men, not for families. Interventions are anyway important, but they need to be implemented by a more general coordination and program.
What happened in Treviso is particularly serious and it shows administrators in Treviso lack of sense of responsability: they “evacuated” regular migrant workers, people who everyday enrich our territories. Politicians in this city do not want to solve integration matters, they prefer propaganda.