The Italian city of Cinqueverferi, which is located in the south of Cagliari, has offered to sell its homes for only one euro, equivalent to about one dollar, to attract people to it at a time when the town is filled with abandoned or neglected homes.
The township authorities said that the aim of this decision is to attract new residents to it and return economic activity to the deserted city, which does not have any cases of infection of the Corona virus epidemic emerging, according to the newspaper "The Sun" British.
Among the other reasons that the city authorities have driven behind this offer is their desire to develop their old homes destroyed to restore their luster again.
Each buyer will have to pay an additional $ 275 with a time limit of about 3 years to develop the home, a condition that if he does not comply, he will have to pay a fine of about $ 22,000, according to the British newspaper.
In comments to CNN, the town's mayor, Michael Konya, said, "Getting new owners for these abandoned homes is a key key in our plan to restore camels to our city again or rather the parts that are already missing from the town."
He continued, "There are many people who have deserted the town with their families over the past decades, leaving behind abandoned homes ... We cannot give in to this matter. We must work again until life in its entirety returns to our town again."
"The picturesque nature of our city with the views of the hills and seas that overlook it, as well as a small river flowing near our village, are all natural factors that will make the village a center to attract people to it ... but when we realize that there is an entire suburb deserted by empty houses, then This is dangerous. "
This was not the first time that Italian cities offered their homes for cheap prices. Earlier this year, one of the towns in the south of Sicily offered homes for about one dollar as well, provided that the house be developed within a year.