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Pueblo de Italia offers €5,000 per month to people who want to live there
The absence of services and infrastructure are the main reasons why the inhabitants of this town have decided to move. They currently have less than 1,000 inhabitants.
Roseto Valforte, is an archaic town in southern Italy considered one of the most excellent in the nation. Its mayor, Lucilla Parisi, reported that she would offer 5,000 euros to any individual who moved to live in this ghost town.
After this information, the telephone of the municipal center has not stopped ringing with demands from Italians, as well as foreigners, especially from Argentina.
The region is located 54 kilometers from the common capital, Foggia, in the district of Apulia.
The problems to find work, the heel of the Italian boot and the poor access to the municipality, has caused that entire families and the youngest escape from their homes with restricted streets, to seek a better future.
Parisi, the mayor of the entity, proposed a prize of 5,000 euros, determined to ensure that the Rosetans who emigrated are reestablished, as a method to stop depopulation.
Likewise, it clarifies that since the campaign was declared seven days before, it has received many requests that it has not yet had the option of evaluating.
Although it is evident that despite the interest shown by residents from different parts of Italy, the best advantage comes particularly from Argentina, where some occupants of the region may have emigrated in the past.
With this, they try to attract new families to increase the youth population, and beat the experts who telecommute, for example, university professors or PC engineers, who come to town to live in peace.
In addition to the groups of people who move to the city, the municipal government has established help for people who open a business.
Both, of 5,000 euros for each candidate, will be allowed in sequential application until the restriction of 50,000 euros is reached.
Small town recovery
Its mayor assures that, although the inhabitants of this town really have medical specialists and a school, in addition to the proper functioning of basic services, the aid process for the new citizens will focus on the opening of cafeterias and shops.
Roseto Valforte offered this financial aid that is distinguished by its enormous amount.
Lately, different impulses have emerged to fight against depopulation, which has affected apart from the occupants of more than 1,000 towns in the last thirty years.
In 60 Italian cities, houses are being sold for one euro, to revive their economy and their population, which is increasingly restricted and older.
This in exchange for the recovery of buildings and homes, mostly historic. This tactic is carried out to stop the movement of citizens.
This year Sambuca di Sicilia (South) has gone further by collaborating with the global convenience scene Airbnb to offer a specially designed house to an entire family, free of charge. This would be to facilitate lodging for tourists willing to get to know the Italian people.
This type of impulse and aid, as well as the growing number of people who work from their homes, are another stimulus so that the almost 6,000 ghost towns in the nation, with a population of less than 1,000 occupants, do not disappear from the map.
