Gualtieri: We will make one million euros available to help Roman men and women who struggle to pay the rent, giving priority to large families or those with a disability.
Financial support for rent for a thousand large families experiencing economic and social difficulties. This is the content of the agreement that Roma Capitale and Fondazione Roma presented this morning at a press conference in the presence of the Mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, of the councilor for heritage and housing policies, Tobia Zevi, of Franco Parasassi, president of the institution and of the president of the Commission, Yuri Trombetti. The project, “’Rent contribution to parents and large families’, approved by the council this morning, was possible thanks to the contribution of one million euros from the Rome Foundation. Resources that will finance the call that the Capitol will launch in favor of large families (two or more children), in economic difficulty, in which there are children born between 2023 and 2024 and/or minors with disabilities. The project follows what is foreseen in the “Strategic Plan for the Right to Housing 2023-2026” which, alongside a policy of expanding the number of public residential houses (Erp), provides for housing welfare measures for the middle class in difficulty. An instrument that entered into crisis starting from 2023, due to the failure to refinance the Regional Government’s opinion of the Regional Fund to support access to rental housing and the Fund to support innocent defaulting tenants.
“Before there was a state fund to support families in difficulty with rent, now there is no longer – said Mayor Roberto Gualtieri in the Hall of Flags in the Capitol – we will do it, with the resources made available by the Rome Foundation, which I sincerely thank. We will make one million euros available to help Roman men and women who struggle to pay the rent, giving priority to large families or those with a disability. These are – according to an analysis carried out by the Department – the most exposed ones, to be supported urgently. After having recovered and paid to the citizens all the funds of the Rent Contribution of the previous years, guiltily left unused until our arrival, Rome compensates for the Government’s void by placing itself alongside the families”. Franco Parasassi, president of Fondazione Roma, declared: “The Fondazione Roma has always been committed to providing its support to people in difficulty and in a state of economic fragility. The rental emergency in Rome risks becoming a drama for thousands of families, especially larger ones or those with children who require continuous assistance. For this reason – he added – in the spirit of solidarity and subsidiarity that characterizes the Foundation, we have decided to collaborate with Roma Capitale and make resources available for one million which will be operationally managed by the Department of Heritage and Housing Policies. A concrete help for the daily lives of many people, to support those who can barely pay the rent at the end of the month”.
