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Italian officials will pay up to $32,000 for you to move to Tuscany — but there's a catch
30.06.2024 - 10:39 / insider.com
Imagine waking up each morning to a view of the Tuscan countryside, making your home in the romantic Italian region known for its dry red wine, medieval architecture, and groves of olive trees.
Now imagine getting paid to do it.
Tuscan officials launched a new "Residency in the Mountains" program in June. The program created a €2,800,000, or about $3,001,740, fund to encourage people to move to the rural countryside.
The fund, part of an effort to stabilize the country's dwindling population, will pay people grants ranging from €10,000 to €30,000 (about $10,720 to about $32,161) to move to Tuscany and fix up a home there.
"The purpose of the intervention is to favor and encourage the repopulation and socio-economic revitalization of mountain areas, acting in contrast to the marginalization of these areas," the program's website states.
The grants will pay 50% of the costs of renovations of a home in one of 76 Tuscan cities with fewer than 5,000 residents — including San Casciano dei Bagni, known for its thermal pools; Caprese Michelangelo, the birthplace of the renaissance artist of the same name; and the island of Capraia Isola.
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The program is open to Italians, EU residents, and non-EU citizens — so long as they have established long-term residency lasting no less than 10 years. Eligible applicants must commit to making the Tuscan property their primary home.
Applications for the program close on July 27.
Representatives for the Public Relations Office of Tuscany did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Italy has for years experimented with various schemes to attract new residents to its rural regions. The country, which has Europe's smallest share of children under the age of 15, faces a population crisis so significant that nearly 2,500 towns are on the verge of collapse and will not survive more than 25 years, according to a 2016 study released by Italy's Ministry of Environment.
CNN reported last year that there are more than 6,000 ghost villages around the country, left deserted due to migration and natural disasters.
In response, in 2018, new residents in Molise were offered $27,500 to move to the abandoned towns of the mountainous region on the country's eastern coast. The following year, officials in the town of Ollolai put 200 homes on the market for €1 ($1.25) each to avoid the same fate.
Sicily likewise went viral for offering $1 homes for sale, which, despite their desperate need for repair, attracted swarms of expats who flocked to the country to snap up one of the abandoned properties.
Business Insider previously reported that in Sicily, there were time limits for repairs to be completed, officials required buyers to work with
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