Deadly storms spotlight Italy's illegal housing Devastating floods in Italy that saw an entire family killed when their home was engulfed in water is triggering a bitter row over the country's vast illegal housing problem. The family's villa in Sicily had been built too close to the river, violating safety norms, and the owners had been ordered to demolish it in 2008, but were in the process of appealing, Casteldaccia's mayor says. FILE IMAGES of the villa in Casteldaccia AND SOUNDBITE of the town's mayor.