Overview
- Judicial authorities declared the Spin Time building uninhabitable after a recent fire and placed it under seizure, sealing the site and blocking returns to the apartments.
- Hundreds of former residents are now camped in front of the building in tents and improvised shelters, including children, elderly people and those with illness who have limited access to possessions and medicines.
- Organisers and local groups have kept Spin Time’s activities alive outside the sealed building with daily presidios, cultural events and emergency aid, and a fundraiser has collected more than €85,000 for immediate needs.
- Rome’s municipal government has resumed talks with owner InvestiRE SGR to buy the property and pursue a Porto Fluviale–style municipal rehousing plan while national and regional officials press for eviction or placement on social housing lists.
- Spin Time has housed roughly 400 people and hosted long‑running social, cultural and youth services for about 13 years, making the dispute a flashpoint for wider debates over housing, property redevelopment and enforcement of occupied social centres.