With more than 70 million displaced people worldwide, working out how to provide them with shelter is a huge challenge. Designing a place that could become their home for decades is even harder, especially when there is little political will.
About 600 Italian families have in the past six months expressed their willingness to host a refugee as part of the Refugees Welcome Italia project.
Looking for housing in Lucca, a city in the central Italian region of Tuscany? The project "Aggiungi un posto in casa - Abitare solidale' (Add a place at home - supportive housing) might help. It connects students, migrants and the elderly who are looking for a place to live with those who offer housing.
The Italian interior ministry has announced it will reopen the centre for repatriations in Rome at the beginning of June. It also said work is underway to open another four similar structures across Italy.
A new center for unaccompanied migrant minors has been inaugurated in Milan. The facility can host and assist up to 12 children and teens.
Inhabitants of Fürstenfeldbruck, a refugee processing center near Munich, told DW of overcrowding, filth and bureaucratic limbo, leading to at least one suicide attempt. Bavarian officials say conditions are adequate.
Over the next few weeks, around 800 asylum seekers living in the Schweinfurt anchor center in northern Bavaria will move to another former US barracks nearby. Another 300 asylum seekers near Munich will move into a new outpost of the anchor center Manching over the next few days.
Humanitarian organization Intersos has said that the implementation of the Salvini Decree has created an "emergency" because thousands of youths over the age of 18 can now no longer stay in reception centers. The situation in Sicily is reportedly particularly bad.
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Local institutions in Calabria are working on providing 30 housing units to the new San Ferdinando tent camp, in order to gradually clear the camp. A migrant from Senegal died last week in a fire at the camp.
The third phase of a project to relocate refugees and migrants living in Turin's former Olympic village (MOI) was completed this week. A total of 134 migrants who lived in a building inside the village were relocated on Monday as part of the operation. ''The best way to solve the social emergency is to respect people and their needs'', said Turin Mayor Chiara Appendino.
The shantytown of San Ferdinando in the southern region of Calabria has been dismantled by the Italian authorities. Hundreds of migrants had been living there in extremely precarious conditions. Three had died in three different fires in the shantytown in recent years.