hdecided to sleep in tent in front of her University in Milan, the student Ilaria Lamera, 23 years oldwhich with this stance it intends to highlight the impossibility of students who seek to create a future by enrolling in the best faculties, to find affordable housing.
The student who sleeps in a tent in Milan, against high rents
They are not spoiled, they accept everything willingly, even sharing the apartment with several companions. But pay 900 euros for a small shared room outside Milanit is a lot, indeed too much.
And so the student of Environmental engineering at the Politecnico di Milanoprotested, pitching a tent near the faculty: «I can’t afford a room. I hope the mayor Sala come and see me” has explained. In short, the solution found by the girl is unusual but certainly effective: «Before finding a house in Milan, I was desperate. It’s really exhausting going back and forth so much so that sometimes I said to myself “how much I wish I had a tent and sleep here”. And in the end I really did it».
Students of the Politecnico di Milano gathered in a green area outside the Milanese university, 4 March 2020 (Ansa/Matteo Corner)
Expensive rents in Milan: university students must be helped
Lamera will live there, in the square Leonardo da Vincia few steps from the Polytechnic where he attends the fourth year, until Sunday 5 May.
After all, for a student who he can also work in the evening or be helped in part by the parentsa single accommodation, moreover often in disadvantaged situations, for which 700 euros are requested per month, excluding expenses, remains prohibitive.
The protests and the silence of the institutions
Then what to do? Protest, as much as it can serve. But to a voice you can add yet another and yet another, until it becomes a choir to listen to. Lamera thus planned everything, including the conclusion That “as agreed with the Police Headquarters» will end «around 8pm on Friday 5 May».
For years now, the costs of rent in Milan have been out of reach for everyone, but even more obviously for students. But, although the situation is now known and there has also been an opening on the part of the institutions, no measures have yet been envisaged able to make the lodgings of the Lombard capital more accessible. It would be appropriate to act, rather than talk about brain drain.
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