Protests continue against the increase in rents for off-site university students and tents multiply in front of universities throughout Italy. Today also present in Padua with a tent camp in front of the Palazzo del Bo, as a sign of protest against the expensive rents.
Meanwhile, the political case also erupts, with the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditarpointing the finger at Sky on the center-left: "I believe that the problem of expensive rents is serious but touches the cities governed by the center-left." - and adds - "I highlight how in the cities where there are student camps have not been activated by the municipal political councils in favor of young people and students to offer them a decent housing landscape".
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Valditara: '1 in 5 young people is fragile in learning' - Politics
With PNRR, the goal is to prevent 470,<> children from dropping out of school. Good results in Italy, in the South the percentage is higher. "Encouraging interventions and surveillance" and proposes the Southern Agenda (ANSA)
In response to the minister's words in a note is Irene Manzi, head of school of the Democratic Party: "The expensive rents is a serious problem and a serious government would take responsibility for addressing it instead of shifting responsibility against the municipalities led by political opponents. After all, it is the same attitude used in terms of security: when they were in opposition, the fault was the Minister of the Interior, now that the mayors of the Municipalities led by the center-left govern". And he continues: "The Minister of Education should know well that in the PNRR - on which the government is seriously behind - there are 960 million euros for housing dedicated to the right to study. Proceed urgently and significantly increase - as the Democratic Party had already proposed in the budget law - the resources to support the rental funds for off-site students. The competent Ministers must clearly state what they intend to do to promote the right to education and spare us this excess of declarations", concludes Manzi.
The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, who is in Umbertide for an initiative in support of the mayoral candidate Sauro Anniboletti, also intervenes on the subject: "We are close to the students who are protesting against the expensive rents. It has become impossible for them to find a home and this affects the right to education that is fundamental in our country". "The Democratic Party - said the secretary - will continue to push to convince the government to go back on the huge mistake it made by canceling the rent fund, 330 million euros".
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After Milan, in Rome students in tents against expensive rents - Chronicle
Camp in front of Sapienza: 'We want a table with all the universities'. Rector Polimeni: '400 more places in the coming months'. Minister Bernini launches a working group to control prices. Initiatives also in Cagliari, tomorrow in Turin, Florence and Pavia (ANSA)
"When he talks about expensive rents Valditara should remember that he is part of a government that has assumed the responsibility of not refinancing either the rent fund or that for culpable arrears and that has indeed shamefully rejected an M5S amendment to the bills dl precisely to refinance both funds. Why doesn't he convince Giorgia Meloni and the whole government to take a step in this direction? So the exponents of the 5 Star Movement in the education and university commission in the chamber Anna Laura Orrico, Antonio Caso, Gaetano Amato and Susanna Cherchi. "On the subject of housing, in general: what kind of investments does the government foresee on the public and social housing front? How do you intend to strengthen the offices of the municipalities that deal with the investigation, the screening of applications and the allocation of housing? And on the right to study: is the government reasoning - with Minister Bernini in the first place - on strengthening the scholarship system? Since Valditara has decided to make statements on the expensive rents at least this time enlighten us, otherwise we are always at the usual silly statements to make sterile controversy on the skin of students and families", he concludes.
"I don't want to ride controversy, but to find solutions. The moment is difficult, there is an economic situation that also weighs heavily on rents. We cannot waste time, we must give answers immediately, placing ourselves in a position of listening and not of opposition". The Minister of the University Anna Maria Bernini writes on social media. In an interview with Il Giornale, the minister says among other things: "we need more resources, with the government we have already put in the budget law 400 million more extra PNRR but it is only a first step". And again: "The PNR plans to create 60 thousand additional places. The ministry has already reached the first target by providing students with 7500 beds. In the next few hours an expression of interest will start to understand the public buildings on which we can count to create the other 52,500 places planned".