Roma’daki Spin Time binasının sahiplerinden tahliye mağdurlarına 500 bin euro bağış

Owners donate €500,000 to help rehouse people evacuated from occupied Rome building

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 12 - The owners of the Spin Time complex, a 10-storey Rome building that had been occupied for over a decade, said Wednesday that they would donate 500,000 euros to help the City of Rome address the housing emergency that erupted when a fire on July 29 prompted police to evacuate the property. Since the fire the approximately 400 inhabitants, including some children and elderly and disabled people, have been living in tents in the street outside amid Italy's ongoing rampant heatwave. The Rome city council's centre-left administration had been in talks with the buildings' owners to buy the complex to use it for social housing but talks broke down last week. The bid to buy the building had been controversial with critics, including Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, saying it would have rewarded squatting. Investire Sgr, the company that owns the property in Rome's Via Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, said it would be up to the council to "identify the necessary facilities and services and handle the related procedures" in relation to the use of the donation. (ANSA). Read article...