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Inside Europe: Pressure over rehousing Italy's Roma

Angelo van Schaik
July 12, 2019

Italy is home to up to 180,000 Roma and Sinti. Around 40,000 of them live in camps, often in squalid conditions without proper sanitation. The government wants to close these camps and move their residents into social housing. But when Roma families are assigned a flat, there's often uproar in the neighbourhood. Angelo van Schaik reports from Rome.

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