The home is the great forgotten issue of our time. Not because it is absent, but because it has lost its original meaning: to be a place of living, of life plans, of putting down roots, and of warm, close relationships. Amid the silence of public debate, the housing issue remains relegated to a private sphere - one to be faced alone, depending on one’s social networks, or from which one may be excluded entirely. Yet the housing crisis is the most obvious symptom of a systemic distortion; we live in an economy that transforms every need into a commodity. Home is becoming anything but a home: it is an investment, an economic asset, a tourist accommodation, a source of rental income. This is why we need a unified perspective, capable of reconnecting what the market has severed. Housing, tourism, finance, work, and the city are not distinct dimensions, but manifestations of the same extractive capitalist model that transforms everything - spaces, relationships, time, affections, bodies, and lives - into terms of consumption. The home is our mirror. It reveals how we live, how we conceive of relationships and places, and how we manage to imagine the future.
La casa è il grande rimosso del nostro tempo. Non perché manchi, ma perché ha smarrito il suo senso originario: essere luogo dell’abitare, del progetto di vita, del radicamento, delle relazioni calde e di prossimità. Nel silenzio del dibattito pubblico, la questione abitativa resta relegata a problema privato, da affrontare in solitudine, a seconda delle proprie reti sociali, o da cui restare esclusi del tutto. Eppure, la crisi della casa è il sintomo più evidente di una distorsione sistemica, viviamo in un’economia che trasforma ogni bisogno in merce. La casa sta diventando tutto fuorché casa: è investimento, asset economico, contenitore turistico, promessa di rendita. Per questo serve uno sguardo unitario, capace di legare ciò che il mercato disgiunge. Casa, turismo, finanza, lavoro e città non sono dimensioni distinte, ma manifestazioni di uno stesso modello capitalistico estrattivo che trasforma tutto – spazi, relazioni, tempo, affetti, corpi e vite – in termini di consumo. La casa è il nostro specchio. Racconta come viviamo, come pensiamo le relazioni e i luoghi, come riusciamo a immaginare il futuro.
Se l'Italia è senza casa
Elena Granata
2025-01-01
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The home is the great forgotten issue of our time. Not because it is absent, but because it has lost its original meaning: to be a place of living, of life plans, of putting down roots, and of warm, close relationships. Amid the silence of public debate, the housing issue remains relegated to a private sphere - one to be faced alone, depending on one’s social networks, or from which one may be excluded entirely. Yet the housing crisis is the most obvious symptom of a systemic distortion; we live in an economy that transforms every need into a commodity. Home is becoming anything but a home: it is an investment, an economic asset, a tourist accommodation, a source of rental income. This is why we need a unified perspective, capable of reconnecting what the market has severed. Housing, tourism, finance, work, and the city are not distinct dimensions, but manifestations of the same extractive capitalist model that transforms everything - spaces, relationships, time, affections, bodies, and lives - into terms of consumption. The home is our mirror. It reveals how we live, how we conceive of relationships and places, and how we manage to imagine the future.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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