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To 'save' cities, Italian mayors offer money to new residents

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January 30, 2019

Locana, in Piedmont: city shrank from 7 to just 1.500 residents

For some, generous offers are nothing more than a marketing ploy. But now they guarantee: the offers are real

An Italian city is offering foreigners $10.000 to move there. Another offers newcomers more than $1 per child to encourage the birth of babies. These agreements represent a last-ditch battle to save the country's dying rural communities. The information is from CNN.

One of these agreements was made by Giovanni Bruno Mattiet, mayor of the small village of Locana, in Piedmont, on the border with France and Switzerland. He is willing to pay up to $10.200 over three years to families who want to live and reside among the snowy peaks, as long as they have one child and a minimum annual salary of €6.000. “Our population shrank from 7.000 residents at the beginning of the 1.500th century to just XNUMX people who went looking for jobs in Turin’s big factories,” Giovanni told TV.

Locana is not the only city in need of a renaissance. To revitalize the population of Borgomezzavalle which has been reduced to just 320 inhabitants, Mayor Alberto Preioni is selling houses for just €1 to newcomers, as well as offering €1.000 for every newborn and another €2.000 for anyone who wants to start a business in the city.

But not all cities had real offerings. Bormida, in the Liguria region near France, rescinded its payment offer. The mayor admitted that he was just trying to get attention. And Montieri in Tuscany initially advertised €1 houses but later put them on the market for prices starting at €20.000.

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