Italy’s One Euro House Dream: The renovation reality

For many people, living in a historic town in Italy seems like an unaffordable dream.

But thanks to an ambitious social experiment you can live la dolce vita in Sicily for just one euro!

This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Natalie Whiting travels to the Sicilian towns where people are arriving from all over the world to snap up abandoned houses for virtually nothing.

And their arrival is helping to solve one of Italy’s biggest problems.

The country has the oldest population in Europe with deaths now far outstripping births and huge numbers of young people are leaving for better

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Chip and Joanna Gaines tackle new home renovation in ‘Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse’: See trailer

Chip and Joanna Gaines have their hands full with another fixer upper project.

In a new trailer for their newest show, “Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse,” the couple takes on a new home renovation project in a new neighborhood near Lake Waco in Waco, Texas.

The trailer shows the couple discussing their design plans for the 1960s home which has dramatic cliffside views, demolition on parts of the home and the challenges they’re facing as they give the home an updated look.

PHOTO: Chip and Joanna Gaines are shown in a screen grab from the new trailer for "Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse."

Chip and Joanna Gaines are shown in a screen grab from the new trailer for “Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse.”

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