Italy quake: homeless to leave tent camps next month
Those left homeless after Wednesday's devastating earthquake in central Italy will be moved out of their tent camps by the end of September.
Some 2,700 people lost their homes in the 6.0-6.2 magnitude quake, the majority of which are currently housed in 58 blue-tent camps which have been set up throughout the affected area.
But with the homeless victims facing the onset of a chilly alpine winter in the Apennines of northern Lazio and Marche, the Italian media are reporting the makeshift camps will be dismantled by the end of September.
According to Italian news agency, Ansa, the victims will be moved into local hotels for a three or four month period, while construction begins on sets of temporary
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Uprooting people is cruel and adds suffering to suffering.”
Piano emphasized that temporary wooden homes can be built for as little as 600 per square metre to can easily be recycled once their inhabitants move back into permanent accommodation.
Renzi's plan to earthquake-proof Italy
On Monday, Renzi also stated his desire to overhaul vast swathes of Italy's ancient architecture as part of a plan dubbed 'Casa Italia', which seeks to make the country more resistant to tremors.
Some 24 million of Italy's 59 million inhabitants are thought to live in areas at risk from earthquakes and following the latest disaster, questions have been raised over the ease with which many recently restored or constructed buildings - including a hospital and school - collapsed when the ground shook.
“It is a long-term plan which could take years or even generations to complete, as the architect Renzo Piano told me yesterday,” Renzi wrote on his personal blog on Monday.
“The fact we have not been able to get a coordinated prevention project off the ground for the last 70 years means this isn't going to be an easy
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People became homeless because they relied on women and some have lost their jobs. They were sometimes kicked out of their houses because of their bills and their other payments. The homeless people would sleep in parks, benches, alleys, cars, subways, and on buses. The estimates of homeless people are 2 million people. In winter they would
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