A look at a new future or a dangerous return to the past? This is the dilemma that accompanies, from the first cries, the rehabilitation projects planned in Bisconte and Fondo Fucilewhere the strategy chosen by the former De Luca administration with Arisme, i.e. that of closing the long period of “barracks” to turn to the housing market, was decided – by the administration itself – to return to large residential complexes. With the risk of creating “non-places, where social isolation and degradation will prevail”. The new alarm was launched by the new secretary (not yet proclaimed) of the Democratic Party, Armando Hyeraceaccording to which the projects for the construction of around 400 homes «recall the neighborhoods of Scampia in Naples, the Zen of Palermo, or S. Paolo in Bari».
According to Hyerace «the approach to the issue of the right to housing combined with that of urban redevelopment cannot be “spend at all costs”. We are discussing the urban redevelopment of entire portions of the city territory which, despite being close to the centre, have for decades been treated as forgotten suburbs. A reality on which attention has been drawn mostly during electoral rounds with promises that have almost always been unfulfilled. These can and must truly be redeveloped in the most virtuous way possible. And so that they can truly represent the driving force for the transformation and relaunch of the city, it is essential that the proposal looks at an overall and long-range vision.” The secretary “in pectore” announces that the Democratic Party «is planning meetings with social representatives, tenants’ associations, qualified professionals, and stakeholders, to arrive at a synthesis that takes into account the real needs, critical issues and proposes concrete actions to be implemented. Thinking about the “resurgence” of the villages, which in our municipality number just under fifty, imagining the construction of mega residential buildings, in a city that loses around 20,000 inhabitants every year, compared to countless free, vacant homes that could be functional to welcome new residential units, seems absurd.”
