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Buildings named "Vele" were
made on a
architectural plan drawn up by a
skilful Neapolitan architect, Franz de Salvo
Who had
hypothesized
to realize
the 'amalgamation of several families within
one architectural complex
200, 250 families into
each individual
housing units
The hypothesis is to achieve
these buildings
interconnected
by metal gangways that
were supposed to represent the Neapolitan lane
on multiple heights
The intermediate space between the
buildings has been reduced from 12 to 8 meters.
These spaces, in fact, even more reduced have increased
the perception of
darkness
In fact, the interior must have lights on constantly.
They are passages in which the effect of the atmospheric depression
There is a passage of wind that comes straight course on housing
The total absence of maintenance - Romeo ...
the structure of Romeo
which I think is still delegated for the maintenance of these buildings
Commenting on is useless and just looking the conditions in which
are not maintained. This condition accentuates
discomfort.
Vele's evacuation plan, in other words the moving of 800
households to the new buildings displaced on Scampia's area
also, led to massive investment by the municipality for
remaining families that still
are into "Vele" , to be secured
The making of protective panels, the eliminating of the stairs ...
the welding of the doors.
That is, a maintenance ...
Yet, a few days ago, a whole stair
into yellow "Vela", is collapsed. Thank God, there was no victims
just because it collapsed in a time when there was no presence of children
or women who moved on landings.
About a month ago, this stairs is collapsed.
Since then, no one had done nothing. It's still here.
It hung just fell, so we called the firemen.
They put only
these plastic protection strips.
Both sides.
Then, we called
Naples municipality, civil protection,
They came, but they didn't nothing.
Right here lives a disabled boy, Ivan.
Unfortunately,
he is into a double prison.
He sometimes came out to watch boys playing football,
Now, he can't even look out.
Fortunately, he wasn't passing by when it fell.
He sit on heavy mechanical wheelchair
The chair is already broken.
Medical service doesn't give me another wheelchair because it costs € 18,000
There is only sadness, here.
There is nothing, here.
My son has no friends,
there is nothing for my son, here.
He is disabled.
I lose my mind, here.
I can't hear anyone... from morning to night.
I'm always alone.
I would like to stay in larger house
where I could go around...
A cleaner place to stay.
Where there aren't all of these drugs
A space where you can move...
go to visit friends
Here...
there is too much moisture
I suffer it.
Regular tenants
are 110. They pay regularly all taxes.
I am an occupier, but there are regular tenants who pay for building lights,
for the elevators - that have never worked.
They pay for maintenance ...
Down in the garage, there are many water losses that we have adjusted on our own.
They don't come...
My name is Salvatore, I'm a regular tenant that lives in Blue "Vela"
There isn't maintenance.
There are old ladies who need assistance
but have neither an elevator.
You need a windsurfer's license to climb stairs,
because
there are marbles on the ground that move with undulating movements.
We are regular tenants.
We pay all.
I speak for myself, I pay everything I have to pay. So, I also made
requests for maintenance, but I never got an answer
by Romeo, the organization that manages haousing here.
I've never seen a Romeo's worker.
They had to repair my roof... I did the request because
in Tv corner, you could take a shower when it rains.
Some maintenance work is done here.
They're dismantelling asbestos panels from a month.
They are replaced by metal slabs
But, I discovered that these asbestos panels
were hidden in this empty apartment.
They were hidden
in these rooms.
Broken asbestos pieces are putted into these bags
like ordinary garbage.
However,
these bags aren't taken away from here for disposing of.
They are hidden in the same place where they had been for 35 years.
We have lived close these asbestos panels
for more than 35 years.
If we moving away
these families
from these phalansteries
50 meters high. 220 people piled up.
They can stay into closed home or
they can being criminals and selling drugs,
or becoming sex workers, etc...
If we move these
households to
buildings
two, three, four levels high.
In each building there are
4, 6, 8 families
They have
neighborhood units that allow even most trivial things,
like the going to open shop, the bringing of child's wheelchair
This condition
has social effect.
It's very different to put 220, 230
families in the same place. Scampia's urbanisic condition
looks like
an highway.
Buildings are isolated.
Buildings are
conditioned
by these streets that
look like highways
that isolate
internal parts. Between buildings
there aren't connections. First project
provided underpasses to connect buildings.
But, these underpasses have never been viable.
Unfortunately,
hazardous waste has been dumped in them.
Internal wall covers
are so thin and so little
that
molds and spores
deposited on these
walls
were breathed by elders and children.
They often suffer by respiratory diseases
It was happened
in the past years.
In the four "Vele" that are still on
there are 358, 400 occupiers.
Unfortunately, those are in need of
a place
to sleep.
After "Vele", there is only the street. Sometimes, is better to stay on the street
that to live in the "Vele".
Oh, no ... I ...
I lived in Calvizzano and I recently got married.
My husband lost his job
I went ... I broke the door, and
after a while time, officers came and gave me legal residence.
After three years, they drove me away from here
because we were abusive occupiers. They told that I could not stay here.
I had no place to go.
So I broke door again,
and I occupied this house again. They want to drive us away because we are illegal.
I would like to say ..
then I was married, but now I'm divorced and I live alone with my
two girls.
I can't carry on
my family by my own.
I earn 20 euro per day, I work honestly.
I haven't got chance.
We survive, not live.
Unfortunately, we don't have chance to go away
I would go away from here.
But I can't go away. When I get out, I see the vomit. When I get out, I see poop on the floor...
When I get out, I see toxic that is drugging...
When I get out, I see trash falls from above...
Go down and there is a hole in the ground, go down and there is no panel ...
No, it's unthinkable.
Public administration is stronger
against
weaker people.
Campania's regional administration
in January
has enacted
a law
that allows Mayors to proclaim
calls
to lead to the law illegal occupiers
that have occupied house until December 31, 2009
Every Mayor of Naples' province calls that proclaim.
City of Naples' Mayor is the only one that
had opposed this law.
21 or 27 eviction notices are delivered to Blue Vela's occupiers.
The aim to break down the "Vele"
is a goal already obtained for three buildings (already destroyed).
It's not a iconoclasmic aim,
We don't destroy the imagine because it is ugly
But it's senseless
to keep these architectural objects that have failed
them aims.