Solidarity Hospitality, the call for proposals seeking residents to improve Milan's neighborhoods. With an eye on solidarity.

SOLIDARITY HOSPITALITY MILAN

In Arabic, Give means property. And it is also the acronym for Diritto a Restare, that is the name of the Social and Solidarity Cooperative that deals, together with Arci Milano, with the gang “Residents Wanted”, a open call intended for young people between 18 and 30 who are experiencing job insecurity and housing emergencies.

Among the key words of the call: solidarity, integration, housing support, sharing, and good city management practices. This isn't just welfare; it's a comprehensive project that fits right into the most cutting-edge experiments of the condos  and the supportive neighborhoods where it sharing , cooperation They act as an antidote to an increasingly atomized life that severs all types of relationships between people. Instead, the project focuses precisely on the concept of hospitality.

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SOLIDARITY HOSPITALITY FOR WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED

The idea was born in this perspective, when, in 2006, the social cooperative of educators and psychologists “Comunità Progetto” thought of a model of retraining of the Milanese neighborhood of Baggio, not only wanting to respond to the housing emergency but also to provide a real alternative model of life in the city and in the neighborhood. They call it a "project of social cohesionSince then, they have been networking with the DAR Casa community, and with the full support of the municipality of Milan and the partnership with Arci Milano (always attentive to solidarity) the successful initiative continues, which also has a connotation of recovery of vacant properties.

The 24 apartments on Via Demonte that are the subject of the call, in fact, are former ALER apartments below the threshold, that is, with a surface area below the requirements for inclusion in the public housing rankings.

The turnkey accommodations, renovated with funds from the Ministry of Youth, will be assigned to controlled fee 300 euros for young students, workers, precarious workers or those with atypical contract types between the ages of 18 and 30, with an income of less than 1500 euros per month. And another fundamental requirement: the willingness to commit 10 hours per month of one's time to projects that improve the social fabric of the neighborhood. For now, the Solidarity Hospitality assignments are located in the areas of Via del Turchino and Ca' Granda, and among the territorial projects activated, assistance for lonely elderly people, service afterschool for children and teenagers, film club e food counter, in which the fight is fought waste of unsold food from the local market.

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SOLIDARITY HOSPITALITY HOW TO PARTICIPATE

With a simple search it is possible to find the call for solidarity residents, or it can be retrieved on the Arci Milano website or through the page FB dedicated to the tender.

The only requirements, as mentioned above, are age between 18 and 30 years and a monthly income of less than €1500. Students or workers, provided they are employed on temporary contracts: workers with permanent contracts are excluded from the call.

But there's more: it's important to have the desire to create and activate a sense of community, donate ten hours of your time per month to the creation of connections between people, virtuous practices of upgrading also and above all social of the areas in which one lives.

Because the homes and neighborhoods of the future, to defeat the loneliness and precariousness of existence, become lived in and not just inhabited, with an eye to integration, to not wasting, to civil living, to a sense of community.

(The featured image is taken from the Facebook page of Solidarity Hospitality)

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