Scramble to house hundreds camping in Rome heatwave after squat eviction

Rome's authorities are rushing to find homes for roughly four hundred people now sleeping in tents amid a heat wave, after their eviction from Spin Time Labs at the end of last month. The Guardian reports that the ten-story building in the Esquilino district had served as Italy's most high-profile centre for housing and social assistance since grassroots groups occupied it in twenty thirteen. The private owner refused Rome council's offer to purchase the property, and residents will not be allowed to return. The evictions are part of the Meloni government's broader crackdown on squatted buildings.

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