Student loans company: Milan’s age-defying solution to high rents
Dora Grazzini, 83, and Maria Urbani, 26, in the apartment they share in Milan. Urbani doesn’t pay a full rent, but contributes a small fee to cover expenses, and in return Grazzini gets her company.
Dora Grazzini, 83, and Maria Urbani, 26, in the apartment they share in Milan. Urbani doesn’t pay a full rent, but contributes a small fee to cover expenses, and in return Grazzini gets her company.
E very evening Dora Grazzini waits for Maria Urbani to return to the sixth-floor apartment they share in an upscale neighbourhood on the outskirts of Milan so they can have dinner together. We seldom meet in the morning, because we have different schedules, but dinnertime is when we chat and tell each other of our days, says Grazzini.
Their routine is not unlike that of many roommates, but differs in one important way: Urbani is 26 and Grazzini, 83.
Urbani came to Milan from Cittadella, a small town of 20,000 near Padua, to study costume tailoring at the Academy of La Scala Theatre. When she was born, Grazzini was already a grandmother. Now a great-grandmother, Grazzini has been living in her apartment since 1957.
Grazzini, a homemaker all her adult life, has lived on a widow’s pension since the death of her husband two years ago. After a few months of living alone she began to feel lonely in her apartment, so she joined Prendi in Casa uno Studente (Adopt a Student), a project promoting the cohabitation between students and seniors.
Urbani contributes a small fee to cover expenses but doesn’t pay full rent, and in return Grazzini gets her company. Urbani says they are very close: On the weekends when I don’t visit my hometown, we spend time together here at home it’s such a cozy environment.
In 15 years of offering Adopt a Student, the MeglioMilano association has arranged around 600 cohabitations. The average age of the host is 79; in 76% of cases, the host is, like Grazzini, a woman living in an apartment she owns. Continuar leyendo: “Student loans company: Milan’s age-defying solution to high rents” →
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