22,000 homeless in Rome says Caritas chief

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 29 - Homelessness is Rome's most serious problem, the director of Catholic charity Caritas in the Italian capital, Giustino Trincia, told ANSA on Monday.
    "Housing is the first and most dramatic problem we have in Rome, it has lasted for decades but it gets worse every year - in 2022 alone some 7,000 evictions were carried out, including 90 for (tenants') blameless arrears and 22,000 people are homeless", said Trincia, sounding the alarm on Rome's housing emergency.
    "We have between 120,000 and 150,000 empty apartments in Rome, it is necessary to activate policies that require the intervention of Parliament and the government as the municipal government can't act alone, we need a great alliance of all political forces that are able to tackle a situation of emergency while we see a city afflicted by the speculation of short-term rentals", he concluded. (ANSA).