"Small towns are full of empty houses: with a few contributions, they would all be available and the housing problem would disappear." For this reason, we need "a Sardinian Agenda for small towns , the local area, and rural and mountainous areas."

This is the proposal of Umberto Oppus, mayor of Mandas and general secretary of Anci Sardegna , in a post on social media on the sidelines of the National Assembly of Anci, held this week in Bologna.

«Rereading and studying the various speeches at the National Assembly of the National Association of Italian Municipalities – writes Oppus – I heard new and even more worrying alarm bells ringing (not to mention real sirens) for the small towns and territories of the interior».

«Among the announcements – the post continues – the new agenda (European, but which will then be passed on to the member states), because 75% of European citizens live in large urban areas and, according to the bureaucrats on duty and poorly enlightened politicians, this raises a series of questions linked to housing, transport, and the very organisation of cities».

Oppus, however, launches a proposal for a Sardinian Agenda for repopulation. "In 1960, Sardinia, with 1,600,000 inhabitants, had a population evenly distributed across the island (therefore, it was inhabited, not abandoned, and had limited hydrogeological problems). Today, with the same inhabitants, we have drained the interior to create (and strengthen the interests of a few) the urban centers of Cagliari and its hinterland, Olbia and Arzachena, Sassari and Alghero. " "It is time for choices," the post concludes, "and it is time to rewrite our future."

(Unioneonline)

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