Countdown, he risks being left homeless and there’s very little left now. “Evicted at 93, don’t let me die in the street.” Franca La Ganga returns to launch a heartfelt appeal one step away from next May 10th when she will have to leave the rented apartment in San Giuliano where she has lived for 24 years. She says she is desperate but she lets her 73-year-old daughter, Ivana Perversi, talk about her because after the stroke that struck her last March she has not yet fully recovered the use of speech or movement. «We have always paid the rent, which currently amounts to 570 euros – begins Ivana – taking care of this 96 square meter apartment as if it were ours. The cold shower came when it was recently declared unusable.” Moving house has proven to be a mission impossible due to a schizophrenic market that offers offers that are as rare as they are expensive.
«We’ve been looking around since 2016 – the woman points out – but it’s all a cry. The majority of people from Romagna prefer to rent to tourists but there is no shortage of those who keep their houses vacant after having suffered bad experiences. As for the requests, they all put us against the wall: some demand 900 euros a month for a two-room apartment, with a deposit of a year or even two and a half years. Science fiction stuff.”
