La legge “perfetta”. Un’analisi di strumenti legislativi e amministrativi sull’abitare di rom e sinti in Emilia-Romagna

This report focuses on some of the results of the research “Contemporary Anti-Gypsyism in Italian Local Legal Devices” conducted by the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Applied Anthropology (CREAa) of the University of Verona as part of the broader project “Countering Anti-Gypsyism: a cultural pathway between memory and actuality” funded by UNAR and Formez PA. The research was conducted between September 2022 and July 2023, involving a comparative analysis of Regional Laws for Roma and Sinti in Italy, as well as a case study on housing policies for Roma and Sinti in Bologna. What emerged from the research made it possible to unveil some persistent criticalities that lurk precisely in the gap between a Regional Law (L. R. Emilia-Romagna 11/2015) that seems “perfect”, and aims to protect the right to housing of Roma and Sinti also through innovative tools such as the “micro-areas” (L. R. 11/2015), and the “Regional Regulations on the Technical Requirements of Micro-areas” (D.G.R. 43/2016), which establishes the temporariness of this type of housing solutions, setting de facto limits characterised by a clear sedentist bias to the implementation of the law.