From Milan to Florence, from Bologna to Venice, then Perugia, Padua, Pavia. Now the students have brought the protest against the high rents also under the Ministry of University and Research in Rome where tents are also planted in front of Sapienza and Tor Vergata.

"We are tired. We ask for study, housing and income", say the guys of the Cambiare Rotta group. "Our requests all go in the direction of the elaboration and implementation of policies and tools that serve to really guarantee the right to education for all. We invite all students from all universities to continuous and permanent mobilization".

Tents in eight cities

Meanwhile, the student union has written to Minister Bernini and asked for the urgent convening of a table at the Ministry of the University aimed at finding solutions to the housing crisis.

"In the letter - explains Camilla Piredda, coordinator of the Union of University Students - we talk about the situation of rents and university residences. We have expressed all our concerns about how PNRR resources are being spent, which are going to private student housing. How can you think that a 15% discount on the market fee will be decisive? Instead, the famous 400 million euros are too few and frozen for months. If the Next Generation EU is really to look at the new generations, we would like them to be involved and consulted. For this reason, we have asked for the opening of a national table to address the housing crisis".

"The statements of Minister Valditara - continues the coordinator of the UDU - have made us very angry because they have given the sign of a policy incapable of assuming its responsibilities. For this reason, today we do not give up but rather double with demonstrations in eight university cities".

The tents in front of the universities will be in Milan, Pavia, Padua, Venice, Bologna, Perugia, Florence and Rome. On the other hand, those in Turin and Cagliari have been dismantled, while in Trento they will arrive on Friday.

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Dear rentals, protest of students at Sapienza University of Rome

Bernini: "The census of unused properties is underway"

The words of the Minister of Education who declared that "the problem of expensive rents is serious" but "touches the cities governed by the center-left" did not even please the Minister of University and Research. Anna Maria Bernini said that she believes "the search for a contrast with local administrations, counterproductive to the achievement of an effective solution and as much as possible shared".

"Minister Valditara legitimately expresses his opinions, but my line remains that of dialogue. My North Star is the students", said the minister, announcing that "with an expression of interest we will identify the available properties. To meet demand we have to increase supply, that's indisputable. And collaboration with private individuals, envisaged by the PNRR, is indispensable. We will assign the properties to those who will guarantee, at the lowest cost, the greatest number of beds to the children who are entitled to them".

"To win the championship of 52,500 beds you have to team up," she reiterated, interviewed by Radio 24.

"There are those who campaign with and on the tents of the students, and those who solve the problem. This government, just a month after taking office, has allocated almost 1 billion euros on the right to study: 500 million for scholarships and 400 for new beds", continued the minister who announced more places for medical tests. "It will happen in the coming years, but we will not open to everyone. For the next seven years we have estimated a need for 30,<> new doctors."

Ministry sources specify that the minister's statements referred to the increase of 30 thousand accesses to Medicine in the coming years, but that he did not enter into the merits of the number of 19 thousand admissions on the next academic year. The final report will be presented next week.

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Ilaria Lamera student of the Polytechnic in tent in Piazza Leonardo in Milan to protest against the expensive rents

Sala: "The high rents are the other side of the coin of success"

The mayor of Milan Beppe Sala intervened on the issue of expensive rents, which started from his city with the first tent planted in front of the Polytechnic.

Speaking at the Forrest broadcast on Rai Radio1 he said: "After the Expo the values of the houses have increased by 50% is not that it should be accepted, but unfortunately it is a fact of reality". "In the afternoon, he added, "we have a meeting of rectors and student representatives."

"We are not against Airbnb if you have a second home and rent it - he continued - but if you have a dozen houses and take them off the market, for us it is not good". "Then we fight for social housing which are not the old social housing intended for those in difficulty, but mixed residences for which for one part you make the price you want, but on the other hand you make a price set in agreement with the Municipality".

"We have 13 thousand apartments for students - he concluded - and we have worked, in recent years, on the regeneration of railway yards to concentrate social housing.

Mattarella: "Giving a future to the younger generations"

The President of the Republic also invited us to pay attention to housing policies, reiterating their importance for the social cohesion of the country.

In a message sent to the national president of the Forum of Family Associations APS Gianluigi De Palo, Mattarella, said today that "the social cohesion of the country is measured by the ability to give a future to the younger generations by creating a climate of trust" and that "appropriate housing, fiscal and social policies, reconciling the balance between life and work are fundamental issues for the development of families".