survey on higher rents in the capital in search of cheaper solution made off ROME? courage is not 'EASY FOR ANYONE The capital is the most between expensive university towns with a price - quality ratio among the lowest in Italy a few words before you start this work on higher rents for the students of Rome was born from the personal experience of moving from another city who has competed in 'adventure to find a house looking into every opportunity. We have heard various testimonies of many people who found in our own situation, we have also done some research trying to hear a voice like the institutional review rents realizing that the situation is not the best. Studying and 'still a right? The Right to Education? Only one student who is preparing to move a study in another city to know what they are getting. Ramshackle houses also leased to 6 students at a time from unrealistic prices, discriminatory advertisements, contracts exist that allow students to be able to compete for a scholarship for students far from home. There are about four hundred thousand students who decide to pursue university studies away from home, the most popular destinations are the classic big cities like Rome, Milan, Naples and Bologna, but in recent years there has been a change of course toward smaller cities and to measure as a student of Padova, Siena and Catania. The motivation is certainly also linked to the prices of the apartments and the cost of living in big cities that really has become prohibitive. According Sunia, the union of tenants, rent increases last year 's 8.7%, more than four times the rate of inflation in 2006 stood at an average of 2.1%, which makes the 'rent a luxury that the lowest incomes can no longer afford. Before this ranking black in the major metropolitan areas is Rome, where rents have risen by as much as 12% after Milan is an increase of 11%, followed by Venice and Florence, with 10%. The more moderate increases were recorded with 6.5% in Turin and Bari and Catania, with 6%. For an average apartment of 80 square then the rent went from 502 € on the outskirts of Bari in 2000 in the center of Milan. Are placed at an intermediate level of price increases Bologna, Naples, Genoa and Palermo. With these figures speak to the study of law seems really a joke. Looking for a house in the jungle of the property The first thing to do for a student or whoever it is who moves to a new city is to find a place to live. The first solution would be desirable to find a house for rent to share with other people, it can be done through word of mouth, internet, university boards and the dear old "Portaportese" which contains listings of all types. The problem is that most of the time what you find is very different from what you want. "I saw some really squalid houses - says Agnes, a student from Bari to Rome for two years - without balconies, with small kitchen and one bathroom for five or six people." "Without counting - continues Francesca's friend who is with the Sicilian you - the problem of distances in Rome because it certainly can not underestimate the problem of the area where you are going to live if that is too far from places to hang out becomes a very stressful move. " Prices range from three hundred and fifty to five hundred euro for a single room but you can pay more if the house is in the center. The other irregularities typical rents for students is the lack of a contract with a real legal value. Centoquarantaquattro are millions of euro paid into the coffers of private landlords. Box office records for the hosts which were held by students, in 41% of cases do not pay a single penny of taxes because they do not release the contract. The most common type of contract (after the one in black, of course) is that the arrangement according to the law 431/98 (27.53%), however, that the hosts do not provide many tax. Emblematic in this regard is the testimony of Alexander: "A couple of years ago I rented a room in an apartment near Tuscolana very spacious house is not brand new but well kept. Everything went well both my roommates that the owner until the latter decided that when he had come to Rome one of us had to give him the room and share a room with one of the roommates ... the room was coveted by the owner because my bed was double, with the premise that when he bought the furniture I had asked for an extra bed to accommodate our parents or maybe a few friends made off ... all are students told me that he was fine though, so I had to pay me, I gave him the money for the difference in price between a single bed and the bed! From that moment I started the fights and the sudden raids! Obviously, both me and my roommates did not go to have him and his family around the house after we paid rent of € 350 per room plus service charges and utilities, and we had not even a lease!! It took calls from my parents and parents of the other to calm him and let him know that his was an absurd claim. It was all an illusion! Before the summer holidays the owner came to visit with his wife and has been very kind and said diplomatically that if we did not accept his condition, an absurd claim for me, we could try another place! Well armed with good will, I went to a lawyer friend of mine and we wrote a letter which was written primarily that there could chase away because we did not have a contract! In response, he sent him a letter from his lawyer that asked us to leave the apartment at the end of the contract (which we do not know !!??? Since I had not signed anything!) Under which article of the Civil Code or law I still understand it ... Beat the summer holidays began hell real ... he came home and threatened us verbally, he raised his voice and began to speak badly of our parents. At this point the situation became truly unbearable: the phone calls, threats, his forays without the usual notice, we were even in our every move controlled by the doorman of the building who reported All the owner of the house ... because you need to study a minimum of tranquility and above all it is serious when you do not feel safe in your home safe and do not know your stuff the other girls and I decided to leave the house. I was not that the story would end so together with one of the girls we were the police to seek information and if that was the case of complaints ... I left the police station shocked, I found a police inspector who was the lost time ' real estate agent and I was absurd speeches on the rental market and Roman told me he was sorry for what had happened to me but I do not recommend moving forward with a complaint because words: "Miss but in Italy knows how these things are ... stories that have no end. " I was not satisfied with my roommate and always have been from the financial police and we were received by a competent captain told us we had to do if we wanted to take legal action and told him the story when he found it hard to believe it ... After of years we could get financial compensation for what they had endured, and almost certainly would have to pay a fine because we still had tenants rented property without following the canonical way of a regular contract, but this was not the problem, we were tired! Tired of being teased, tired of being treated were part of a foot ... Finally I would like to point out two things the first is that the monthly payments from me and my roommates were always paid on a regular basis (even when they threatened us!) By bank transfer, and the second is that we never signed a contract because an owner house said that he being a doctor would have to pay too much tax if they added another registered pension, however, had proposed a deed that we have not signed because there was convincing, I'm sure at this point someone will object that I should not take rent the house without a regular contract, but virtually none in Rome to rent to students with a regular contract us ... while students should be somewhere !!!". And if the state gave us a hand? Another solution that made off the poor student could consider is to apply for a scholarship and get an accommodation in the name of the dear good "right to study" but this situation is not the easiest. For the nearly 400,000 students off-site Italian (estimate ANCI 2004) there were fewer than 50,000 total seats in university housing, ie a bed every 8 people. The most serious problem lies not in lack of beds but illegally within the students. Most of the time the resorts that people have nothing to do with the status of a university student or have submitted false certifications on their economic conditions and property to false, thus removing the possibility to those who would really right. The prime example is the residence of Wisdom: Casalbertone where anarchy reigned and injustice. "Here are many flaws and does not control ADISU. - Mirko said in an interview with Sudenti.it about the situation of the student - There are many foreigners living in rooms that are not allocated to them on paper. For example, next to me should live in such a Antonio Cassano, but instead lives an Albanian. In practice, when you assign the rooms you choose a fictitious name does not exist and then to get someone else to live. In here nobody is 100% clean. Many students are home illegally friends for periods of six months, a year. I personally do not feel convicted: up to June, I hosted a friend who was an unpaid internship and could not afford rent. I did it with pleasure and more I've removed the place to anyone. "Not to mention the issue of subletting as witnessed in the same article:" I know one who graduated last May and the party did well in here and yet continues to live here without paying the line and nobody's come to say anything. I often think that if instead of being one of the last in the ranking assignees, had been excluded, was also guilty of that abuse. There are people that pays out 350 € for a room that all go into the pockets of students for ADISU are "poor" and (therefore rightly assigns of accommodation), whereas they might well afford a private room, even without the subletting . Lumsa Even though a 'private university has a student residence for its students or better for its students since it is only women. "Places are only twenty-three - Richard Rose explains a member of the Law Commission to Study and President of the Student Council, there are no single rooms but double or triple but it's still a good opportunity that the university offers. There is working to create a men's residence even despite most of the time the boys are not interested in this type of solutions. " Living in an institution Another type of solution that is very common in Rome to stay in one of several religious institutions in the area. In some ways it is a rather comfortable situation because they are almost always located in the central areas of the city enough and is almost always paid. What is amazing are the prices that range from two hundred and fifty to five hundred euro for a single room in which most of the time nor the meals are not included, nor heating. Angela a student of languages \u200b\u200bfor the first year, comes from Campobasso and is in an institution because of the shops in the Dark, not by choice but because of his parents so that "you feel more relaxed" - reveals. "Staying in school has its advantages - he explains - why do not you ever feel alone because there are always people coming and going is the only problem is the time which of course does not allow too much freedom." Who protects the students? "In fact, no - we respond Emiliano Guarneri, head of Sunia Via Galilei - because there are contractual arrangements made off the special provisions for students and it is certainly true that today is the end not protected like the elderly and immigrants. " "The institutions are moving in this direction - ensure Dr. Guarneri - because Sunia asked the City of Rome to make available hundreds of housing for students who agree to report uncomfortable situation and the limits of legality in which they live. Of course for this to happen it must be guaranteed their place elsewhere. Only a culture of complaint may stem the flow of illegal rents in black and groped in some way to improve the situation. "We pull the sums Our journey into the intricate world of fictitious capital is completed in the vacation home Sunia with the hope that things can change and the right to study to become truly whole and not the possibility that only an elite few can afford. Choose Rome to continue his studies means investing in their future in the hope that a big city offers better opportunities and a democratic country like ours should guarantee all this right is not taking advantage of what most of the time is a necessity rather than a choice. Judith Chiara Del Priore Moscow Simona Volpe Sources • www.quitalia.it • www.repubblica.it • www.studenti.it • www.cattolicaeracleaonline.it •