Price would hop from squatters' home to squatters' home until he died.
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Next door to it is a vacant house once used by squatters, though the squatters are gone.
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State police admitted several squatters died in police firing, but at least 11 were killed in a fire that broke out in the squatters' huts.
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Squatters are taking over the city's homes that were abandoned in the housing crisis Squatters are taking over the city's homes that were abandoned in the housing crisis This segment originally aired Oct.
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Occupiers are often surprised to hear themselves labelled as squatters.
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Others built homes on public land, essentially living as squatters.
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Squatters turned an abandoned schoolhouse into a thriving arts center.
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He soon introduced her to his community of anticapitalist squatters.
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I am also reminded of a horrifying case in Hamburg in the 1980s on Hafenstraße, where a community of squatters was confronted with dealing with a serious case of sexual assault committed by three squatters.
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It spread to ranchers suffering invasions of squatters on rural farms.
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One wing has become a hospital, while squatters inhabit other rooms.
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Long-standing squatters should be given the land they live on.
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Most of the squatters were Eritreans who had been granted asylum.
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The state agency lacked the will to move against the squatters.
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It's weird there, with a lot of abandoned houses and squatters.
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But 2500 squatters find shelter in a school building in Lyon.
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A bunch of dirty squatters in a kiddie pool on a stoop.
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Related: Will Julian Assange Be Moving to a Squatters' Settlement In Brazil?
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Squatters were removed from the city center, which was then essentially demolished.
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In the 80s it was used to defend squatters from the police.
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Californians have become squatters of sorts on an infrastructure that others built.
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Many of the newcomers founded squatters' towns on the fringes of cities.
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For example, one of its first segments is about asylum squatters in Amsterdam.
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It was Roosevelt who created the wildlife refuge in Oregon, angering white squatters.
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Mr Olitzki negotiated cash settlements with the squatters and paid them to leave.
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Initially coy, he got drawn into a debate with a couple of squatters.
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But she doesn't have the heart to throw out the kind, stinky squatters.
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Some said the lights would deter drug addicts and squatters, or attract them.
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Within days, the squatters had more than enough food, mattresses and other donations.
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Now Chinese brands are finding that they too are increasingly targets of foreign squatters.
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The roofs of the houses were blown open to prevent squatters from moving in.
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One lists awkwardly, laden with cables carrying stolen electricity to a squatters' settlement nearby.
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Some of the squatters fear they will eventually be kicked out when bulldozers arrive.
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Squatters set up an illegal toll system along a congested major highway in Manila.
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Bolt-cutters are back in fashion and squatters are taking over from traditional promoters.
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Squatters pull the windows right out of their frames, climb in and do drugs.
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The West Side especially was dotted with empty houses that attracted squatters and crime.
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Refugees are being left to languish for years in camps or as urban squatters.
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The squatters asked him if he wanted his house back, but he said no.
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Before the takeover After the takeover Stefan Smit's private farm Kayamandi Squatters' shacks Mar.
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Squatters typically buy up domains for financial gain, and they can demand exorbitant sale prices.
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You have every right to evict your squatters, but try to be nice about it.
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Paramilitaries have threatened him for organizing peasant squatters in Macondo and the larger Urabá region.
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In that early work, he documented the squatters along an abandoned train line in Jamaica.
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"Duration of the squats is not the deepest concern of political squatters," Professor Martínez says.
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Squatters live in old university buildings or crammed inside homes with relatives or kind strangers.
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Squatters had encroached on the ninth-century cemetery, building houses and stealing its marble tombstones.
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Sometimes squatters use their phones as flashlights, casting an eerie glow visible to the neighbors.
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Squatters may have sneaked into her house amid the chaos, the 42-year-old said.
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"We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property," Edison mused in 1910.
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It remains stalled because of appeals by squatters who illegally purchased land in indigenous territory.
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Laborers lured from the countryside during the island's postwar industrial boom established a squatters settlement.
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"We are the only squatters in France supported by City Hall," Ms. Etcheverry said, grinning.
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After hearing the news of the court order, the squatters held true to their egalitarian credentials and organized a council yesterday evening in the mansion, taking a vote on whether or not the 30 or so squatters in the building wanted to resist the eviction.
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They have filed lawsuits on the squatters' behalf including a request to raise the housing assistance.
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Other squatters, like Antonin, have used their domain ownership to make political statements or troll opponents.
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Squatters peered warily out of broken windows; inside, a warren of shacks faded into the gloom.
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Other squatters started preparing a communal meal, under the guidance of a squatting veteran called Tammy.
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He asked the squatters and the day workers and the addicts he passed on the road.
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Many of Talomo's approximately 60,000 residents are squatters, according to Sagpang, and drug addiction is widespread.
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As late as 2017, an inspector again cited the property as abandoned yet accessible to squatters.
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Of 554 rooms in those homes, all but five (less than 1 percent) had some crunchy squatters.
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However, the squatters refused to go for months, saying $100 was not enough to cover a rent.
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Rent-free: Suddenly, everywhere, there are brain squatters, hogging mental resources and coughing up nothing in return.
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"All of a sudden we walk into a back room where squatters are doing drugs," Hawes says.
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But Dresden said challenges aren't likely to hold up given that the trademarks weren't registered by squatters.
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The police patrolled the train station vigilantly, but they weren't on the lookout for loiterers and squatters.
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They don't want fake accounts or even just inactive squatters--they need real people behind the content.
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Vasudevan documents the efforts of squatters from Vancouver to Milan, uncovering a "hidden history" of political struggle.
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Property ownership is complicated in the tiny district, where residents comprise renters, homeowners and squatters, he said.
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Many people supported squatters in the middle of the twentieth century; in 1946, the Daily Mail praised
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Some repair broken windows and other damage from past squatters, pretending they own the place, neighbors say.
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After dozens of the squatters then camped in the gardens in front of the building, on Aug.
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But when Penny's family moves to evict the squatters, she must act to protect their fragile community.
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The squatters' movement, with its anarchic fervor, theatricality and social purpose, put him right in his element.
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A married couple down the block has heard squatters camped out in an abandoned house next door.
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It is among the patchwork of districts known as favelas, which were settled by squatters decades ago.
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The people on the list soon found themselves subject to squatters, backlash, and difficulty in selling their farms.
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Julie and Billy decided to become squatters in an empty office she finds at NPR while visiting Arthur.
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"Squatters that have lived there for years, they have de facto rights," Brillembourg told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In Las Vegas, the crackdown against squatters coincides with a resurgence, albeit modest, in the local housing market.
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Neither Britain nor China took much notice, so squatters, factory-owners and organised-crime syndicates also moved in.
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The new faces among Democratic candidates, the new energy behind them, suggest a party of members, not squatters.
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Rules vary from state to state, but for the most part, the law is on the side of squatters.
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" In the early 19th century, landowners described the landless rural poor as boisterous, foolish "crackers" and idle, vagabond "squatters.
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There was no plan for the squatters, who likely moved into homeless shelters, relatives' homes, or onto the streets.
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In the 1970s, he helped set up a squatters' estate agency, fixing up the homeless with vacant London properties.
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Another, Valle de Dios, was an empty desert canyon until it was invaded by squatters in the early 2000s.
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Mr. Ruiz lived in a working-class area founded by squatters, which benefited during Mr. Petro's time in office.
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After months of a tense standoff, he said he was ready to sell the plot the squatters took over.
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"The whole idea is to have Haiti itself not create problems," he says, gesturing towards squatters' homes on hillsides nearby.
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Public defenders for the squatters say the government is required by Brazil's constitution to provide housing for people in need.
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"Nicotine" follows squatters in New Jersey whose homes are divided by identitarian interests, such as feminism, indigenous rights, and smoking.
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It once housed a branch of Brazil's federal police and had been occupied by squatters for the past seven years.
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Other searches on platforms like Instagram revealed that some people were less scam artists and more good old-fashioned squatters.
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Macondo is where Benigno Gil and Solano led peasant squatters pressing their land claims against cattle ranchers and banana businessmen.
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At first the government didn't give them much attention as they sat in peripheral areas of the city, squatters said.
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This time the squatters were more political, but the GLC generally tolerated the practice and even licensed a few squats.
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"You can't wish them away," said Richard Leiyagu, one of the plaintiffs, calling for the government to settle the squatters.
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Walls and fences that gave shelter to unlawful shops and squatters were removed, allowing the park to be completely open.
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According to Coates, police told the squatters that cult members who lived at Kingsdene had been arrested for running a .
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She was amazed by the way squatters were able to live and even thrive under such difficult circumstances, like homesteading.
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"Crashing," about the wacky-sad lives of a group of squatters in an abandoned hospital, is a more conventional sitcom.
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In the middle of the night, I caught one of the regular squatters filling multiple buckets from my outdoor faucet.
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Before the takeover After the takeover plot 503 plot 2 Kayamandi Squatters' shacks Stefan Smit's private farm plot 1 Mar.
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In the center, 70 vacant buildings are inhabited by squatters and managed by organizations fighting for affordable housing in the city.
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She remembers boys from the party escaping over a fence across the street at an abandoned house where squatters frequently crash.
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Neither Brennan or Ledgett specified which reports were believed to be frequently dog-eared on ISIS squatters, but that doesn't matter.
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Killjoy's characters are hitchhikers, anarchists, and squatters, looking for a place to settle and live with the freedom that they desire.
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A police operation to evacuate the bulk of the squatters was launched in April and resulted in violent clashes with protesters.
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We're told Briana's family wanted to protect the kid's best interests and block any squatters -- after all, he is 1D royalty.
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Many other similar facilities are fenced in and heavily patrolled by security to keep out squatters, vandals, and curious urban explorers.
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Cavanaugh's organization helps residents who have grievances, from noise complaints to problems with squatters and, recently, the issue of gang violence.
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Since the 1980s, there have been many clashes between the police and squatters, the worst of them in 2006 and 2007.
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Squatters move in; their laundry flutters from the rooftops, from every one of which there is a view of the sea.
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More than a century ago, squatters descended upon the area's mangroves, using debris and castoffs for landfill as they built shacks.
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Yet the marathon casts its singular spell wherever it lands, turning any space it inhabits into a sprawling, smiling squatters' paradise.
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The suspects were living in the house illegally, he said, and other homes in the area have been occupied by squatters.
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The city, which is legally responsible for housing migrants who are minors, relocated squatters recognized as non-adults to public housing.
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My apartment is full of squatters, and I had no idea until I downloaded Pokémon Go. Under my sink, there's a Squirtle.
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After Norm's horrible death, Penny goes to visit a long-neglected family property and finds it full of attractive and charismatic squatters.
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The squatters have named the house "Nicotine," after their cause within the activist community: They are all smokers, which is tough nowadays.
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A small fire burned on the pavement and a sheet hanging from a first-floor window was set alight by squatters inside.
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President Maithripala Sirisena's coalition government has been gradually clearing some state lands dwelled by illegal squatters, mainly around the historic Beira Lake.
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Arson and demolitions had left a single five-story building on the south side of 183th Street, with a few squatters inside.
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This book's title, "Nicotine," refers to a house in a rundown section of New Jersey that's been occupied by friendly anarchist squatters.
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Many Mijikenda were dispossessed of communally-owned land and rendered squatters as the British ruled that all unregistered land belonged to them.
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After it closed, anything valuable was stolen or destroyed and the building became a popular spot for squatters, vagrants and urban explorers.
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Dozens of districts settled by squatters decades ago, and long neglected by the state, are controlled by drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
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Ivory Coast is also struggling with a serious deforestation problem and has been evicting cocoa-farming squatters from its lush, protected forests.
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A judge ordered the squatters to vacate the farm, but most of the shacks have remained while the decision is being appealed.
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Swaths of Latin American cities were settled through land invasions in which squatters illegally built their houses on vacant private or state land.
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Tension and exhaustion grew, with multiple false alarms as different officials scouted out the building and squatters raced to pack up their possessions.
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Like other squatters there, Ms. Kim said she did not know the house's name or history until television crews and historians began visiting.
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Residents of Ghost Ship and kindred spaces are often thought of as squatters and people who want to withdraw from the dominant society.
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In London last year, squatters briefly occupied a mansion left empty by its foreign owner in one of the city's most expensive neighborhoods.
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The tower, originally intended to be a bank center but abandoned since 1994 and later occupied by squatters for years, dominates Caracas' skyline.
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" Singer added, "The solution to Oakland's housing crisis is not the redistribution of citizens' homes through illegal break-ins and seizures by squatters.
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At the dawn of the 1980s, Brocklehurst had befriended a group of squatters responsible for the infamous punk zine Kill Your Pet Puppy.
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Blackstone and Goldman said they had evicted just a small number of squatters and aimed to keep renters in the properties long-term.
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But rebuilding to modern standards or relocating squatters to new homes would take an investment far beyond reimbursing residents for lost property value.
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She said the annual survey does not capture squatters who may be off the street but aren't in a shelter or a home.
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The '80s were full of memorable big-screen punk-rockers, from the pissed-off pissants of Repo Man to the sullen squatters of Suburbia.
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Domain squatters typically buy up URLs for financial profit or to troll others online, though some have used the technique to make political statements.
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Occupying empty or abandoned buildings was not a crime; rather, if squatters stayed in buildings long enough, they could eventually claim rights to them.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued more than 60,000 title deeds to coastal squatters since 2013, including giving away 2,000 acres of his family's land.
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"I could really see us having kids here," he whispered into my ear as we tiptoed over the detritus of squatters and failed contractors.
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Assuming several different identities, at times something of a compassionate superheroine, Horacia bides her time among the lower depths, befriending squatters and street people.
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The ruling could hurt China's so-called trademark squatters, people who foreign companies say have profited from registering the names of well-known brands.
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Márcio França, governor of São Paulo state, estimated that 150 downtown buildings in the city are illegally occupied by squatters, living in substandard conditions.
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Or you can go shopping at The City Creek Center, then sit down for a bite to eat and some local brew at Squatters.
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Environmentalists say some are long-term residents with legitimate claims to their homes, but others are squatters who arrived recently and need to be removed.
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The occupation of several buildings in central Sao Paulo has lasted several months because of a Brazilian law that makes it hard to evict squatters.
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And yet there are still horror stories, including defiant squatters refusing to leave a home and parties causing tens of thousands of dollars in damages.
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"One of the biggest challenges is carving out time to combat squatters in the middle of the violent crime epidemic we're facing," Lieutenant Farese said.
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Members of the leftist groups and their sympathizers have been protesting the gentrification spreading into Berlin neighborhoods that have been home to squatters for decades.
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While post-independence governments have settled squatters on public land and private land that they have bought, this has not solved the problem, experts say.
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The government wants to regularize informal housing in the area, building new apartments and a park for the squatters, Figueiredo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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He went on to represent Occupy movement squatters and Black Lives Matter organizers, protesters of school closings and police shootings and Philadelphians opposing casino construction.
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Setting up as squatters in a vacant house in Alcanar, a working-class holiday town about 186 miles away, they created a makeshift explosives factory.
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Most of its cocoa is grown on small family farms of a few acres, much like the plots the squatters carved out in Mont Péko.
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He said that he had tried to make sure there was no access into the abandoned house, but that squatters have always been an issue.
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Neighbors in St. Albans, a middle-class neighborhood, said the house had been a regular stopover for homeless people and squatters for quite some time.
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Domain name squatters exasperated companies in the 1990s, buying web addresses with famous names to either ransom the domains off or draw visitors to porn sites.
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Wim Holleeder's early forays into the underworld were modest: he provided muscle for landlords who were looking to evict squatters, and dabbled in various fraudulent schemes.
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Since coming to power in 60, the government has issued tens of thousands of title deeds to squatters on the coast, like Jefua, to reduce landlessness.
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Much of the coast is still owned by wealthy foreigners and politically-connected Kenyan elites who, as absentee landlords, struggle to keep squatters off their land.
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"The historical practice has been to clear squatters from central Yangon and relocate them to new towns at the periphery," Forbes told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In April, squatters began to descend on certain parcels of private land around the country, constructing rudimentary settlements of plywood, two-by-fours and plastic sheeting.
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Business manager Alaa Aldin Mahmoud, 34, is living with about 120 squatters including many refugees in an abandoned building in Liberdade, São Paulo's Little Japan neighborhood's.
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In Rome, the deputy mayor was booed when he said he couldn't support squatters' rights, while Palermo's mayor was cheered for giving residence permits to migrants.
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Squatters who built on land they didn't own, however, would likely only be given money to cover lost items and relocate to a rental, he said.
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Municipal officials dismissed the allegation as "absolutely untrue," countering that the squatters are trying to jump ahead of a long line of people waiting for housing.
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So maybe those lonely, pain-ridden wall-squatters in Oxford's study report having fewer friends because they're spending more time dealing with their low tolerance for pain.
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The home was in a "very deplorable" condition and often inhabited by squatters, Rick Ackerson, deputy chief of the sheriff's office, said at a news conference Thursday.
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The newly liberated land is a target for squatters, whose modus operandi is to clear the trees for profit and then run cattle over the resulting pasture.
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The Chinese system is based on a first-come, first-serve basis, creating a lucrative opportunity — until the Qiaodan ruling — for squatters to register famous international brands.
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But that story about artists, creatives, and squatters being the first step in gentrification, we did see it happening, although it was very different and much smaller.
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The report also recommended that any illegal squatters be evacuated from the forests and for communities who have traditionally lived there to be resettled in adjacent areas.
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Seoul Journal SEOUL, South Korea — For decades, squatters have lived inside a dilapidated red brick house on a hillside not far from the royal palace in Seoul.
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The government, which owns the house and plans to designate it as a cultural asset, has said it will help the squatters relocate so renovations can begin.
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After the government announced the project in 2008, people — known locally as commercial squatters — started clearing untitled land, putting up fences and selling it, often to speculators.
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Staffed by homeless people, most of them gay or transgender, it's in the garden of a once grand house, now occupied by squatters, on a forested hillside.
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Some of the land had been planned for a housing development, but the squatters have parceled off territory and some are even wiring their shacks with electricity.
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One of the buildings that collapsed, on the rue d'Aubagne, had been condemned, but local officials could not rule out that squatters might have been living there.
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After years of drifting the city's canals, a step ahead of the law, two English students-turned-squatters found success in their 50s with a floating bookstore.
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One afternoon, their convoy drove up to the old headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, a crumbling edifice built in the nineteen sixties, now occupied by squatters.
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When the economy took a dive in 2008, the neighborhood they used to live in became a shell of itself, with abandoned houses, broken windows and squatters everywhere.
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Sometimes, when you moved into a house, the telephone would still be working, so there'd be lines of other squatters outside trying to get in to make calls.
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The argument that was being made at the time is that we were seeing an increasing number of homeowners being affected by squatters – being displaced from their homes.
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Victoria Seaman, a Realtor and state assemblywoman who represents Las Vegas, said she realized how serious the problem was after she found herself face to face with squatters.
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Guardians pay low rents in exchange for securing buildings from squatters and vandals, but sometimes live in poorly maintained mouldy homes with few legal protections, the report said.
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In its long abandonment, The Towers became a target for squatters, who moved in, posted a notice on the door setting out their rights, and changed the locks.
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Blac Chyna is not cutting the Blac out of her life anytime soon, and the only reason she's legally locking down her Kardashian name is to block squatters.
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Many abandoned buildings in São Paulo's downtown were taken over by homeless squatters during that time, while drug addicts pitched tents in the streets and once-elegant parks.
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Then squatters moved into the concrete grid — lack of elevators and plumbing be damned — and transformed it into a small, self-sustaining city with a population of 3,000.
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For years, residents in Queens had been concerned about an abandoned house in their neighborhood, telling officials the property was unsafe and had become a home for squatters.
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While low-income rentals represent a small piece of their portfolios, the companies ignited a firestorm when they began evicting squatters, in an effort to improve property values.
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About 6,000 squatters landed here, near the El Yunque National Forest, and built makeshift homes on 40 acres that span a low-lying valley and its adjacent mountainside.
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Squatting in NYC is legal, so the laws there at the time were if a building is occupied [by squatters] for ten years or more, it's an official squat.
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So I was chasing domain squatters for Ben, trying to find engineers, doing whatever I could and just realizing that you could only do so much from the outside.
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Amber Murray, a neighbor, told KOIN 6 News that there had been "a few squatters in and out of [the home]" before the mother and her daughters moved in.
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Franca said about 150 buildings in the region were occupied by organized groups of squatters, who have pressured the government for years to provide housing for the city's homeless.
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Declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1994, the Nazca Lines have faced damage by squatters looking for land to settle on and motorists veering off a nearby highway.
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Some 100 refugees had occupied Piazza Independenza since Saturday, when most of about 800 squatters were evicted from an adjacent office building they had occupied for about five years.
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The youth wing of far right Vox party hung a sign on the house reading "Refugees and Squatters Welcome" on Sunday, mocking the party's stance on immigration and housing.
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Five years back, the organizers of Occupy Detroit spent the winter on Goldengate, but the anticapitalist movement fizzled and the street today is mostly populated by hippies and squatters.
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Opened: 1995 Closed: 2009 Today: Most of the building is empty or occupied by guardians, people who live in properties for a cheaper rent to prevent squatters moving in.
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"The solution to Oakland's housing crisis is not the redistribution of citizens' homes through illegal break-ins and seizures by squatters," Sam Singer, a spokesman for Wedgewood, said Friday.
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LYON, France — From their villages and towns in West Africa, the squatters had crossed deserts, seas and mountains to arrive in Lyon, most of them for no specific reason.
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"In Nigeria, if you have low-income squatters in the property, rather than getting a court order, you just get the police to get them out," Mr. Keazor said.
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Today, local trademarks of Peppa Pig, a cartoon character, are being sought by scores of patent "squatters", using a rule that lets them get in ahead of its British owners.
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The gates swing open from the inside and Darren Davies, the leader of a group of squatters occupying the derelict 48-acre site, stands in an army-surplus camouflage jacket.
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Squatters have descended on every corner of the Las Vegas Valley, taking over empty houses in struggling working-class neighborhoods, in upscale planned communities like Summerlin, and everywhere in between.
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"It would be a big victory for us," said Landu, who was among the original squatters who began occupying the formerly empty land in Cape Town's Philippi area in 2012.
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"We had told them several times that you know they're not tenants, they're not paying this rent, they're squatters, they're there illegally -- I don't want them there," Jason Badger said.
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In late 2009, Lawrence Rinder, director of the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, stood alone and despondent in an abandoned building recently inhabited by squatters.
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The area was an abandoned military base in 1971 when squatters broke down the barricades and occupied 84 acres of land, declaring "a self-governing society" of artists and freethinkers.
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Desperate men drifted across the country and filled up squatters' camps of the homeless and workless on the outskirts of small towns, terrifying those who still had something to lose.
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Squatters, homeless after a pre-earthquake housing crisis, have used high- and low-tech materials—tarps, plywood, aircraft cable—to turn its decks and towers into a cool suspended shantytown.
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Yet, a major challenge would be distinguishing occupation from ownership, as long-term renters or squatters could potentially amass enough evidence to make an ownership claim, according to New America.
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By the time Thoreau came to Walden on July 4, 1845, most of America's untouchables were gone, but the traces of former slaves, squatters, immigrants and day laborers were everywhere.
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Yang added that China's efforts to get rid of shanty towns — offering money and resettlement to squatters — sped up notably in the first quarter, also resulting in higher investment values.
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Last year, government authorities were widely criticized for attempting to evict unauthorized squatters and their animals from the game reserves, said the Dar es Salaam-based Legal and Human Rights Centre.
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One local official, Sabine Bernasconi, said one of the buildings had been subject to an evacuation order, but she could not say for sure whether squatters might have been using it.
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Mr. Monzón, the engineering consultant, said the disaster could offer a chance for Peru's government to promote resettlement, especially among those living in the squatters' towns on the outskirts of Lima.
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To Mr. Gervais, France has a responsibility to take care of the squatters, especially because they hail from former colonies where the French still exercise great economic, political and military influence.
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Linda Dey, who has lived adjacent to the burned home for 26 years, said that she had complained to city officials "several times" that the squatters next door were selling drugs.
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Buyers with cash, tenacity, and time were the most inclined to risk buying these houses, which often came "as is" with the risk of violations or squatters, damaged walls, or cracked foundations.
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Top photo by Yui Mok/PAThe anarchist squatters who took over a $19 million mansion in London's bourgeois Belgravia neighborhood and opened it up to homeless people were forcibly evicted this morning.
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"There are a lot of problems around here," said Karaman, 66, complaining of petty crime by gangs in the area, where many residents live as squatters in aging buildings left to decay.
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"There have been a lot of squatters over there," said one worker at the condo who requested anonymity because, he said, his employer did not permit him to speak to the press.
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According to local residents and police reports, cops have performed periodic sweeps of the Deauville since the fire, ascending the main tower on foot, dogs at their side, to root out squatters.
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Books of The Times Crackers and squatters, rednecks and hillbillies, sandhillers and mudsills, clay eaters and hoe wielders: America has developed a rich vocabulary to describe one part of its permanent underclass.
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If anyone's slaughtering dogs for food in the post-post-apocalypse, it's going to be makeshift kennel squatters, blasting Afrikaner electronic hip-hop to cover the sounds of dogs howling in misery.
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But the squatters found ways to make a home out of the uninhabitable, pooling meager funds to appoint guards at entrances and carrying buckets of water up 28 flights of unlit stairs.
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"We have made it clear, since the very beginning, that Wedgewood would not negotiate with the squatters group as long as they illegally occupied the company's property," said Wedgewood spokesperson Sam Singer.
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"They bring the people down like fodder," Mr. Smit said of the A.N.C. Unlike his more famous namesake, Mr. Ndlasi — or "Madiba" to the squatters — does not dream of a rainbow nation.
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Eventually he and a homeless buddy, who went by Peg Leg Pete (I swear all of this is in Harman's book, I am if anything downplaying it), joined a squatters' house together.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Squatters who occupied a $13 million central London mansion left empty by its foreign owner were forced to leave the property after bailiffs enforced a court order on Wednesday.
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The latest move to clear out the squatters from the Notre-Dame-des-Landes site in western France begun at 0600 Paris time (0400 GMT), the French interior ministry said in a statement.
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Intellectual property lawyers say both the approvals and the timing were the result of due process and reflect progress in closing a loophole that has allowed "trademark squatters" to exploit public figures' names.
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In Caracas -- more than 370 miles west of the quake's epicenter -- one abandoned skyscraper, a well-known home for squatters, suffered severe damage causing the top floors to lean precariously over the street.
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In a similar light, "Spectre" (2006-2008) is Mr. Rechmaoui's replica of a Beirut apartment building that was abandoned during the war, then occupied by refugee squatters and is currently rented housing again.
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Ms. Franco grew up in Maré, a district in northern Rio de Janeiro that is among the largest in the city's constellation of favelas, largely impoverished districts that were initially settled by squatters.
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After thousands of factory jobs left Flint, so did many of its residents, and neighborhoods throughout the city are still marked by blight and abandoned houses, often vandalized or taken over by squatters.
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Well,…Read more ReadAnd let's not forget that the Outer Space Treaty also prohibits anyone from appropriating territory in space, which means that under current law, SpaceX's Martian colonists would be squatters, or pirates.
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"£4.8 million [$5.8 million] worth of property for ten pence, not bad," he says—the cost of printing the Section 144 notice stuck to the prison gates, announcing the squatters' claim to the site.
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The poster's title refers to Joseph Beuys's seminal 1974 performance, "I Like America and America Likes Me." Bailiffs removed a group of squatters from an unoccupied, £15–million (~$18.8 million) property in West London.
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Residents of more residential neighborhoods have complained that the kiosks are too bright, too loud and more attractive to idle squatters than they are to busy passers-by in need of a quick connection.
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But by the summer of 290, ravaged by the twin plagues of crack and AIDS, the neighborhood's Tompkins Square Park became an ad-hoc camp for homeless people, squatters, punks, drug dealers, and users.
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When you manipulate the parameters to allow for Ross not having played as much as full-time catchers, he compares fairly well to other squatters: Not exactly a position that's overachieving on the whole.
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China's infamous "trademark squatters" — people who register the names of famous brands and people and "squat" on them in the hopes that they can cash in on it — have flocked to the Trump brand.
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Sébastien Gervais, a high school math teacher who moved to Croix-Rousse two decades ago, became involved in a group that supports the squatters and has fought efforts by the city to expel them.
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After graduating from Cornell University and New York University Law School, he worked as a tenant lawyer at Legal Services, suing the city regularly on behalf of squatters on the West Side of Manhattan.
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Unlike in cases where so-called squatters register web addresses they hope to sell for profit, there were no indications the addresses were being made available for resale or populated with ads to make money.
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Originally walled up in the Qing dynasty to limit British influence, squatters blossomed the small space after Japan retreated from their occupation in WW2, China's reclamation making it seem like a safer place to live.
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Squatters had put cooking gas tanks on the railing of a first-floor balcony, apparently ready to be opened to be used as makeshift flamethrowers, or dropped onto the square, Reuters photographers said on Wednesday.
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At least one group of alleged squatters filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to keep possession of the $800,000 home in the hills they were occupying, with its pool and views overlooking the Strip.
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Even if USAID did fund a LOKAL+ project in Canaan, he said, its residents might still be seen as illegal squatters in the government's eyes until it decided to address the underlying issue of ownership.
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The German capital—long considered the ultimate destination for artists, musicians, students, squatters, backpackers, ex-pats, and other pioneering broke people of all strides—has been declared "over" by a formidable list of media outlets.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Metal bars have been installed in the doors of an old newspaper office where scores of squatters - asylum seekers, refugees and a few Italians - fear a confrontation with Rome's riot police.
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He and others like him became what the city's authorities called "squatters" - informal settlers without title to the land they build on whose numbers have multiplied in the last decade as Addis Ababa's population has exploded.
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Her novel pits an odd family of squatters against the local landowner in an isolated copse that, like the depressed neighbouring towns, cannot be seen by passengers streaking by on the London-to-Edinburgh railway line.
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Originally the site of a walled Spanish settlement, the historic quarter of Montevideo is a mix of 19th- and early-20th-century palaces, some now dilapidated and filled with squatters, others restored as museums, restaurants or banks.
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After the landslide Meka and 78 other households were defined by the authorities as "category four victims" - the largest and most vulnerable of four categories ranging from formal residents with land title, to renters and finally squatters.
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LONDON, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambia's smallholder farmers could be made squatters on their own land as the country opens up to farming multinationals in an effort to boost its economy, said a United Nations expert.
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SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the fringes of Sao Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded plywood, plastic tarps and rusted sheets of corrugated iron occupy a hillside protest camp for squatters demanding affordable housing.
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Residents say the explosion of squatters has shattered their sense of security, leaving them wary of any new neighbors at a time when the city is still trying to climb back from the depths of the recession.
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He wrote extensively on local forms of architecture around the world, a field he extended to include suburban housing tracts and squatters' camps, which he regarded as forms of cultural expression worthy of study, like the blues.
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The only way to reconcile these ambitions is to find ways to get much higher yields from the land that will still be cultivated, using modern farming techniques that are often beyond the knowledge of the squatters.
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But he acknowledged the program might not work for everyone, like those in very small villages not connected to roads, or those who have settled as squatters in national parks, where coca growing exploded in recent years.
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Clashes over land are common across east Africa's biggest economy, from Sengwer and Ogiek hunter gatherers fighting to return to their ancestral forests to coastal squatters trying to hold on to land that has been sold to developers.
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While many expect tightening measures to be gradually extended to smaller cities at risk of overheating, China's drive to get rid of shanty towns - offering money and resettlement to squatters - may continue to counter cooling demand this year.
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Business partners Etienne Debanne and Nabeel Alshaya discuss the complications they ran into when establishing their world class boutique winery in Lebanon – a process somehow involving 28 years of squatters, 20 lawsuits and a few rounds of gunfire.
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But the occupation of Nova Palestina by several thousand squatters is different from other housing protests, according to academics and government officials, as it sits above the watershed of a mega-city just emerging from an epic drought.
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It was held only a few hundred meters from one of Germany's most potent symbols of left-wing resistance, a former theater called the "Rote Flora" which was taken over by anti-capitalist squatters nearly three decades ago.
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Only one of her former nocturnal haunts remains: Begine, a Schöneberg cafe and cultural center founded in 1986 by female squatters that hosts workshops, classes, concerts and other events; Lorde rented an apartment in the building in 1988.
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The collapsed building, which reached more than 20 stories high, was a former federal police facility that was inhabited by about 150 squatters, city officials said, but it appeared that the vast majority of them escaped the blaze.
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Historically, flood issues have been a low priority in Kenya, especially in informal settlements such as Kibera where investments in basic infrastructure such as roads and trash collection are ignored because the government considers residents to be illegal squatters.
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The constitution of 2010, which recognises customary tenure, was passed after the post-election violence of 2007-08, sparked in part by politicians inciting Kalenjins in the Rift Valley to attack Kikuyu "squatters" who had migrated there for work.
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The problem has grown so acute that the Nevada Legislature passed a law last fall to make it easier to arrest squatters, who often brandish phony leases in hopes of staying longer in the homes they have taken over.
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But as Berlin has become a more dynamic, high-profile European capital over the past decade, investment money has flowed into previously run-down neighborhoods, driving up rents and leading to conflicts over the ousting of artists and squatters.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Squatters in Paradise" (Editorial Observer, June 18): Ernesto Londoño's excellent essay about the continuing affront to Cuban sovereignty and Cuban pride posed by the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo prompts two further observations.
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In the comments for the video, Urbex Dane says that the daughter of the house's owner, an elderly woman, reached out to him to explain that the house was taken over by squatters after she had to move out.
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In 2014, she told me, the residents of Squat City hosted what they called a Squatters' Convergence, with more than 100 activists from around Europe coming together to share skills, compare the situations in their cities, and mobilize new efforts.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police clashed on Monday with residents in the township of Soweto who staged a protest after squatters tried to erect shacks in nearby fields - the latest of many flare-ups over the vexed issued of land distribution.
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In another sign of growing poverty, the Federcasa housing association estimates some 49,000 public buildings are occupied by illegal squatters, up from 53,000 in 2006, driven in part by the influx of some 600,000 migrants in the past four years.
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Plus, asking customers to simply lounge on couches with a book or enjoy free Netflix downstairs without actually spending any money is practically like inviting all-day, everyday squatters (hi, I watched half of the movie Shrek during work hours).
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Rights groups say local authorities in Lima are reluctant to grant land titles to the Shipibo-Konibo because they fear it could set a precedent for other groups living in informal settlements, often seen as land invaders and illegal squatters.
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The summit is being held only a few hundred meters from one of Germany's most potent symbols of left-wing resistance, a former theater called the "Rote Flora" which was taken over by anti-capitalist squatters nearly three decades ago.
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In the cat-and-mouse game that has ensued, the police have posted images of tires bristling with spikes intended to hamper their approach, while protesters have circulated videos of squatters being forcibly removed from wooden platforms erected as barriers.
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Those who wheat-pasted frequently there included housing advocates opposing evictions, squatters making the case for taking over abandoned buildings and an anarchic noise band, the Missing Foundation, that warned of dire consequences if city officials closed Tompkins Square Park.
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In 2017, Ms. Deponte's group hired an architectural firm to mothball the site — which required cleaning out layers of mold and trash, and protecting it from squatters, including raccoons — so that a plan could be created for its future use.
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She remembered discussing "grand actions" with a group of French squatters who had taken over a castle, similar to the recent occupation of a former Qatari general's mansion in London by the squatter collective Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, charmingly known as ANAL.
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Horatius Sempa, a spokesman for the landlord, said all squatters on the land under contention had been compensated before it was cleared to make way for the commercial palm production of palm oil, which is primarily used for cooking, cosmetics and producing biofuels.
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"The reason on the surface for evictions and demolitions is that Lagos needs to be a beautiful city and that these people are illegal squatters," said a property developer who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions from the state government.
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Fear, armed squatters and mistrust creates a volatile mix, one that could be ignited by more irresponsible political rhetoric, an overarching law enforcement response to them, or -- conversely -- an abandonment of the rule of law to them that emboldens other armed malcontents.
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But there was little that the police could do under Nevada law at that time: If the squatters produced a lease, even if it was clearly a fake, and there was no evidence of breaking and entering, it was considered a civil dispute.
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Banks have slowed a "cash for keys" program that offered residents money to leave foreclosed homes; local elected officials said squatters were making a living moving into one foreclosed house after another, then asking the bank to pay them to move out.
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Isaac Matshego, an economist with Nedbank, said a court ultimately would have to square two very different points of view: how much the land is worth, without squatters, with how much local government – already struggling to provide adequate housing – could afford to pay.
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Maria, who declined to give her last name and lives in a mud-brick house on a squatters' settlement on the outskirts of Porto da Rua, Alagoas, said she survived on the Bolsa Familia, which was her main concern amid the political crisis.
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A carefully refurbished 1,520-square-foot, five-room apartment in a house built in 1909 in Connewitz, a left-leaning neighborhood with a history of squatters occupying houses, may fetch over $500,000, a sum that would have been unthinkable just five years ago.
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It is home to some of Germany's biggest media groups and perhaps its most potent symbol of left-wing dissent, the Rote Flora, a former theater in the city's Sternschanze district that has been occupied by anti-capitalist squatters for nearly three decades.
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"Rent," Jonathan Larson's musical about a ragtag bunch of young squatters who self-righteously equate their refusal to pay their landlord to sticking it to The Man, debuted at New York Theater Workshop in 1996 and went on to become a Broadway juggernaut.
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In an email response, the Volksbühne press office said that in the early Saturday morning talks between representatives of the People's Stage, the cultural administration, the police, and the squatters were held, but so far no official word or response on the protesters specific demands.
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Rex, his artist wife Rose (Naomi Watts), and their brood of four have spent most of the kids' childhood as itinerant squatters, moving from one city to another anytime Rex loses his job or gets in trouble with the law or the family's neighbors.
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In an effort to reduce the number of stream squatters, Charter Communications is reportedly asking Viacom, which operates popular channels like Comedy Central and MTV, to reduce the number of allowed simultaneous streams and force more frequent logins for paid users, according to Bloomberg.
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They were invited to join some 300 squatters who have been living in the building for several months in an occupation organized by Front in the Fight for Housing, an activist group promoting rights of some 400,000 people without decent housing in Sao Paulo.
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He has his detractors, including squatters whose slum neighborhoods have been demolished to make way for public works projects and commercial developments, and political adversaries who have questioned a land reclamation project in North Jakarta that is under investigation by the country's anticorruption agency.
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And we begin to fear for them all over again when their parents follow them to Manhattan, where Rex and Rose Mary exhaust their children's patience and hospitality and wind up homeless, eventually living as squatters in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.
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When Ruiz de Burton returned to her San Diego ranch after her husband's death from Civil War wounds, she found that Anglo squatters had occupied the land; she spent the next decade fighting to reclaim the land, securing a federal land patent in October 17903.
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But the popular piglet is also the object of another sort of unwanted attention: the registration of trademarks related to the brand by foreign "squatters", who hope to benefit as counterfeiters or competitors, or to extract a hefty fee when its true owners lay claim to it.
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For Paroles de squatters, part of a 2012 exhibition in Nantes, she invited the public to the second floor of a condemned building where, in a room containing only a mattress, wood stove, and microwave, she installed videos of people who had been evicted from their homes.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A 22-story abandoned office building occupied by hundreds of squatters was engulfed in flames and collapsed in the center of Sao Paulo early Tuesday, shooting a massive black cloud of smoke into the sky and red-hot chunks of debris into nearby structures.
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The demonstrators and the authorities blamed each other for the escalation of violence, set against the backdrop of angry demonstrations and the burning of dozens of cars since June 22, when the police carried out evictions at a house occupied by squatters in Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood.
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Long before the Olympics began, I started chronicling the complex war for control over Complexo de Alemão, the vast maze of favelas thought to be named for Leonard Kaczmarkiewicz, a Polish immigrant who once owned the land in Rio's north zone where squatters put down stakes.
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Kypros Kyprianou & Roland Denning's documentary video piece "La Zad – The Zone to Defend" (2018), for instance, explores a commune in France established by an unlikely combination of traditional farmers, environmental protestors and urban squatters as a way of resisting the building of a new airport in France.
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Some even find that their Chinese name has already been trademarked, says Matthew Dresden of Harris Bricken, a law firm, either by their own distributors, competitors seeking to block its entry, counterfeiters hoping to pass as the company, or squatters intending to sell the trademark to the highest bidder.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Nene Constantino Oliveira, patriarch of the family that created Brazilian airline Gol, has been found guilty of homicide in connection with the 2001 murder of an activist who led a group of squatters occupying land owned by the family, a court in Brasilia said on Friday.
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In need of a place to live, Penny visits Jersey City to check out her father's abandoned childhood home, where she finds that the house has been named Nicotine and is occupied by an approachable band of squatters, ostracized by other activist households because of their tobacco habits.
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In 1998, as a former owner of the Motor City Bar on the Lower East Side, I knew squatters, D.J.s, musicians, artists and addicts, all struggling to pay rent, all striving for social justice and rarely catching a break the way that Charlotte, Carrie, Miranda and Samantha effortlessly seemed to.
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"They've been left as squatters on their own land," said Joe Eisen, executive director of the Rainforest Foundation UK. During years of advocacy and fieldwork, however, local campaigners from a charity called Maison de L'Enfant et de la Femme Pygmées, backed by the Rainforest Foundation UK, put an end to this.
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After losing her house to a mudslide and bouncing for years between temporary shelters — and even, for a time, an unfinished skyscraper called the Tower of David that was occupied by squatters — she was given a home in Ciudad Tiuna, a housing project that Mr. Chávez erected in a vast Caracas military base.
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If the squatters rediscovered the natural solidarity often found across Africa, they also faced a lack of unity, corruption, suspicions and tensions — between different ethnic groups, as well as between Anglophones and Francophones, some of whom resorted to communicating in the broken Italian they had picked up on their long journeys to Lyon.
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" In the book, Mack explains the era this map illustrates best: "Together the squatters, the homeless, self-proclaimed anarchists, artists and musicians, the drug addled, and all manner of political radicals and local affordable housing activists were pushing back against the city's attempts to turn the neighborhood over to real estate interests.
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This summer, homeless-encampment-related fires also sprung up in Pacoima, where an abandoned house taken over by squatters burned for a second time; in South Los Angeles, where an encampment in an alley burned, badly damaging a house; and in the Sepulveda Basin, where about 100 people were living, some for many years.
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Steps away from the newly rebuilt Hackney Wick tube station and in a vast Victorian yard is Crate Brewery, a onetime print factory used by squatters, where a thin-crust pizza cost 13 pounds ($17), a new zero-waste restaurant has opened and outdoor tables overlook a narrow canal and buildings emblazoned with rainbow-colored graffiti.
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"Now there's a sense of the housing crisis as a real issue, but we were already aware as squatters," Emer said, adding that in Ireland there is a growing recognition of how systemic the economic and social problems that have led to the current crisis actually are—with property speculation and land hoarding now issues chatted about casually among young people in Dublin.
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In the above video you can see how this rave—the first in a series of May Day parties which ran until 2008—drew hundreds of revelers from every downtown scene to dance under the spring sky in Tompkins Square Park, which served as an inflection point for punks, metalheads, art school socialites, anarchist squatters, ravers, and every other category of freak.
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Even as construction cranes have returned to the Las Vegas Strip and unemployment here has fallen to single digits, the situation is getting worse: the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has received more calls about squatters each year since it began tracking the problem; there were more than 4,000 complaints last year, up 43 percent from 2014 and more than twice as many as in 2012.
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The final chapters chart Maura's experience in El Salvador after she answered, not without some trepidation, the call by Archbishop Romero (himself assassinated during Mass a few months before her own death) for Maryknoll sisters to assist the church at a moment when its children, the peasants and squatters of his country, were being persecuted in ways reminiscent of early Christians under the Roman Empire.
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A man in the Netherlands is in some hot water after police found almost half a million in cold hard cash in uhhh… a laundry machine and he was thusly arrested on "suspicion of money laundering" On Monday, police in West Amsterdam said they found €350,000 stuffed hard in a laundry machine as they were checking homes for squatters as the residence they were checking was supposed to be empty.
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