Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara
said Wednesday a student rent crisis was the fault of
centre-left councils which had allegedly failed to put in place
policies to help young people get affordable housing.
Students across Italy have been camping out in front of their
universities to protest the exorbitant cost of renting
accommodation, with the highest-profile protests coming in
Milan, Rome, Florence and Bologna, all cities run by centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) led councils.
"I believe that the problem of high rents is serious but it
affects the cities ruled by the centre left, and I'd like to
point out that in the cities where there are students camping
out, policies in favour of young people and students to offer
them a decent accommodation panorama have not been activated by
the councils," Valditara told Sky TV.
His statement brought a sharp response from Florence's PD Mayor
Diego Nardella, who tweeted: "Valditara passes the blame for the
rent crisis hitting students onto centre left cities. As if it
depended on the mayors! But where was the minister while his
government voted in December to cancel the national rent fund?
There's no limit to shame".
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