Student protest in Turin against high rents and real estate speculation

Posters depicting Mr. Monopoly, "chosen as a symbol of real estate speculation and high rents that affect thousands of off-campus students", and tents in front of the entrance to Palazzo Nuovo: it is the flash mob organized by the Self-Organized University Collective in Turin, as part of a national mobilization that involved six cities.

"For too long - they explain - the verb evict has been used one way, against students and families. It's time to reverse the situation, we want to drive away from our cities those who speculate and profit from our skin: we want to evict the super rich".

"We want to tell Minister Bernini - explain the students of the Cau - that the tents are still there, the luxury dormitories do not respond to the needs of the majority of students. This is why we have launched the national campaign 'Let's evict the super rich': for their profits they are trying to drive us out of our cities, they are effectively denying the right to study to those who do not have the economic resources to support their crazy prices. We want to defend our neighborhoods and our right to study".

The Cau's proposals are that "100% of the beds and student residences financed with public money must be at a controlled price and managed by public bodies for the right to study, no deadlines for restrictions on use, the student residences must remain student residences, the cost of rent must be controlled and calculated in relation to the salary of the majority of the population. From the universities we send a message - they conclude -: no student and no family will be left behind".