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The social housing buildings will dispose with their own charging stations and vehicles

Rome and Lazio embark on condominium car sharing test

Rome and Lazio embark on condominium car sharing test

People living in social housing will have access to shared electric vehicles

The regional government of Lazio (Italy) announced at the end of last week that it would be launching a pilot project called condominium car sharing in one of Rome’s districts called Garbatella. In essence, it concerns the assignment of electric vehicles, such as cars and scooters, to specific social housing buildings managed by the regional Ater housing agency.

The idea is to promote the usage of sustainable mobility among the sectors of society residing in the social housing structures of the region. The project was also announced as part of the presentation of the regional plan on air quality, which among other things envisions channelling 3.4 billion euros from the recovery funds into clearing the air of the Italian capital and its surrounding regions.

Car sharing with a social side

In March the first condominium car sharing will start in Garbatella in one of the Ater buildings. It is a great experiment that will then continue throughout Rome and throughout Lazio,” explained Lazio President Nicola Zingaretti on the sidelines of the presentation of the regional air quality plan. Quality, which in Rome, as reported by a recent report by Legambiente, continues to suffer from very high percentages of nitrous dioxide. 

Part of the large budget that the governor talked about was in his words means towards greening the social housing stock of the region in the future, to the tune of 600 million euros.

The levels of this substance are three times the threshold identified by the World Health Organization. This, however, also comes in the context of a recent report that Rome continues to be the most motorized city in Italy, and if anything the recent pandemic has only affirmed the preference that Romans show towards owning a personal vehicle.

The pilot test will be first carried out at a building on via Edgardo Ferrati, which will be equipped with a special charging station, two electric cars and a scooter.

The future of Rome is knowing how to combine innovation and social proximity. Only in this way does the challenge for the environmental sustainability of our city enter the meshes of everyday life. I want to thank President Nicola Zingaretti for the impetus that ATER Roma and the Lazio Region are giving to the regeneration of the social housing heritage,” stated Amedeo Ciaccheri, the mayor of Municipio VIII, the district where Garbatella is located.

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