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In 2022, I visited Scampia, a district on the outskirts of Naples, Italy. The area, originally designed by Franz Di Salvo and completed in 1975, once consisted of seven buildings intended as utopian social housing. However, the planned infrastructure was never fully realized, leading to rising poverty, which allowed the mafia and drug activity to take hold. Today, only three buildings remain. On July 22, 2024, a passageway in one of the remaining buildings collapsed, killing three people and displacing 800
others. Promised replacement housing, scheduled for years ago, remains delayed.