Thousands of homeless
survivors of an August 24 earthquake in central Italy are no
longer living in civil protection tents and 800 to 900 temporary
wooden houses will be needed to house them, National Civil
Protection Department chief Fabrizio Curcio said Monday.
"The tent camps have been shut down," he told reporters on
the sidelines of a conference between House Speaker Laura
Boldrini and the governors of the quake-stricken regions of
Lazio, Marche, Abruzzo and Umbria.
"Five or six people are still living in tents, for specific
reasons," he said. "But I wouldn't count them as being part of
the (civil protection) tent camps".
Curcio added that based on numbers provided by local and
regional officials from the stricken areas, 800-900 wooden units
will be required to house the displaced survivors until
permanent homes are rebuilt.
At the end of September, Curcio said it "will take seven
months at the most" to build the temporary housing and that of
the 3,000 displaced by the quake, 2,500 were living in Civil
Protection Department tents.
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