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[overcast]

Same reason they build housing near other highly undesirable locations.

[jandrese → overcast]

The housing is right next to an industrial trainyard from the looks of it. It was already undesirable before the bridge was built over it.

On the BBC the person they interviewed said that those apartments were abandoned however, so it may not be as bad as it looks.

[toyg → jandrese]

Not just a trainyard: reportedly the bridge runs above Ansaldo Energia, a big company that makes generators and turbines. So yeah, definitely not prime land, but still crowded.