L’AQUILA – “Today we wanted to shine a spotlight on the delays in the reconstruction of the Ater public housing and on the degradation that some neighborhoods of our city experience in the absence of a redevelopment and recovery project, deeming it useful to start an inclusive and participatory process that increases awareness of the sustainable development goals at local level”. This is what they say Geppino Oleandriof the tenants’ union Sunia Cgil, Antonio Perrotti representing the Erp e tenant coordination Francesco Marrelli of the CGIL of L’Aquila.
“Empty and decaying neighborhoods are the plastic manifestation of how people, families and communities make cities and where there is a lack of planning for reconstruction, for the residential use of available properties, for public services to be provided to people in the territories they become empty and marginality and social disintegration increase. It is necessary to overcome the current attitude aimed at extemporaneous ideas of recovery and relaunch without real planning consistent with the needs of the community, seriously and coherently addressing housing problems, starting from the tenants, the students, the fragilities that have manifested themselves in recent years, overcoming delays and inefficiencies in the reconstruction of public and popular housing so that people can be recognized as having the right to live. We need to resume an organic, transparent and participatory reasoning that outlines a functional and practicable role for everything already achieved with a view to reducing settlement dispersion which, among other things, is uneconomical for families and the Administration.”
The requests are for a “recovery plan for the few nuclei of the CASE/MAP Plan that can be repurposed, returning to agricultural land all those in conflict with hydrogeological protection and seismic microzonation”. The request is then for the “targeted recovery of the few “temporary houses” that can be rehabilitated and sewn back into the existing and legitimate urban fabric” and the “immediate organic recovery of all Ater housing with qualified low-maintenance materials and above all by grafting efficient technologies for alternative energy, a proposal already advanced for the ERP housing of S. Gregorio and which we are now also proposing for Valle Pretara. From this perspective, it is necessary to understand the real consistency of the resources available to invest and for how long these resources will be available”.
The acronyms also ask for greater attention to students, “recovering complexes and buildings near university facilities or in the historic center”. Finally, the request to the Abruzzo Region for the establishment of a “regional fund to support families with economic and social fragility that provides relief both with respect to rent and consumption.”
The Valle Pretara Case
“For Valle Pretara Nuova we are working concretely to integrate and insert new ideas such as the car park with crossing located on the slopes and a business, sports and energy center in the ATER area, which appears to be the most central to the urbanizations to the north of the city. To ensure concrete implementation of these objectives it is necessary to reactivate a close discussion with the Ministry, the Abruzzo Region, Ater and USRA so that they can ensure the necessary support, including economic, so that a functional shared timetable can be created which leads, to as soon as possible, to the reconstruction of all remaining accommodation with the necessary technological/energy adaptation.”
