Italy rethinks housing for quake victims

Italian authorities are debating how to provide warmer, sturdier housing for people rendered homeless by last week’s earthquake and who now live in tents in the chilly Apennine Mountains.

Nearly 2,700 people needing shelter following the August 24 temblor are staying in 58 tent camps or other shelters arranged by the Civil Protection agency. Others stay in a gym in the hardest-hit town, Amatrice. Italian architect Renzo Piano met Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday and proposed building temporary wooden homes.