Serena Scandellari, 48 years old, is a freelance illustrator who in two weeks will find herself without a home. With her is her 75-year-old mother, and both on April 9 will have to leave the house they are renting on the outskirts of Bologna due to an eviction order. Finding another one is an odyssey, due to the scant guarantees that a retiree and a freelancer can offer: Serena had first told her story to Charlotte Matteini, and her story quickly went viral on social media. And thanks to the internet, today a solution might have been found for the mother and daughter. Many have taken an interest in their story, initiating a series of emails addressed to the Municipality of Bologna. But it doesn't end there. Flavio Insinna, the former host of L'Eredità, also reached out with a message to the illustrator.
The municipality
Serena Scandellari and her mother are unable to find a house mainly for three reasons: the prices of rents, apartments that do not always meet the requirements of habitability, and the lack of guarantees.
To overcome these limitations, and find a solution, many have participated in an action of "mail bombing" directed at the Municipality of Bologna. Despite the response from Mayor Matteo Lepore, the solution outlined requires a wait of years, and still at prices too high for the mother and daughter.
The response of Flavio Insinna
If institutional solutions cannot guarantee Serena and her mother a house in short terms, the most concrete response came from Flavio Insinna. The former host of L'Eredità contacted the illustrator on social media. «Good morning sorry I am Flavio Insinna and I had already read about your story. But if we find a way to guarantee this blessed rent could it be a solution?», reads the message then published by Serena herself on X. And so Insinna proposed to act as a guarantor for the two women.
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