Elmas, via Don Sturzo number 3. The house number that overlooks the cycle path leads one to think that there is a house behind the sliding gate. Instead, 70-year-old Bruno Dessì has been living in a container for 25 years.

Silver wedding with degradation, heat, cohabitation with rats and cockroaches, always in the hope, so far disappointed, of having a home. "There would be no problems - he says - if my humble home were at least dignified, safe and livable".

There are two containers inside the sports area from which they are separated by railings. Each is divided in two by a very thin panel, four families live inside them: "I live with a 58-year-old friend, currently hospitalized, and with a 21-year-old dog. All three of us suffer from various pathologies. I have diabetes and suffer from anxiety, my roommate has a stoma bag, the dog is old ."

The containers, decommissioned in the 1990s from the military airport of Decimomannu where they were used as workshops, material depots or changing rooms, 25 years ago had been allocated "temporarily" to families left homeless after the flood.

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