Have at it. Just don’t fuck with normal people going about their lives and I could care less.
Scum of the earth, should be considered burglars and be removed by force by the police or owners.
It’s a good exercise to incorporate into your training regime, but you have to hold back from the ego lift or you’ll do a number on your knees.
Honestly the system is broken enough as it is. No rent controls means that wealth in real estate is becoming monopolised by large companies and there are PLENTY of empty houses across london to house anyone forced to live on the streets, so to speak. Occupation for political reasons or not is completely valid imo. I would go as far to say as if you own a house in a major city like London and leave it empty most of the time, you should pay double council tax on it. That and proper rent controls would be a step in the right direction.
Arrest them. Send them to prison. Not theirs.
Scum.
Trespass inside buildings and in surrounding enclosed premises (like gardens or carparks) should be criminalised. Just criminalising squatting in residential property didn’t go far enough.
Government want you to hate them instead of the long list of people who fuck us over very much to our face
What do you think of empty buildings held by landlords and corporations while thousands are homeless?
Squatting in commercial premises then go for it. Squatting in residential homes, no.
Real Estate marker is flawed by its mere definition. Some people has been taking huge profits out of it. Public sector did get involed back at the mids of 20st century, and situation was the fairer we have ever had in history.
Everything reversed so quickly and is just exponentialy getting worse.
Squatters? well , they wont last long under the current legal framework.
Not really fair maybe , but it is also time intensive to actually be safeguarding your possesed premisses, some of them will sacrifice that time spent, plus they wont be there forever, so the hassle of moving in and moving out with not much belongings.
Situation is hard folks until we dont bring it to the political scope.
Scum …. Sub human scum!
But kidding aside, the point of empty buildings, rich people holding empty property that could go to better use I can completely agree with. But why they have to trash the places and ruin them through lack of respect means they lose the high ground they think they have and everyone involved owners and squatters alike can do one.
Honestly looks like more stress than it’s worth, I don’t think I’d be able to ever relax living like that.
Squatted various places in the early-mid 90s. London Fields, Wapping, Camberwell. Always left in a better state than they were found in. These days I’m a home owner, but if need be then I’d probably choose to squat one the many empty bank accounts that are springing up around London. There’s an abundance of them, and rather that than a falling down shit hole. You’re much better off with a nice empty apartment in Nine Elms. And the sunsets are lovely.
Depends entirely how much damage they do and if they steal all the copper from the walls when they leave.
Some hippies took over some council housing the council forgot about near me during the 60s as London was depopulating, got legal right to it and the surviving boomers became nimbys!
I’ve been homeless.
I squatted briefly on my road back to a more “normal” life.
I treated the place with respect. As did my fellow squatters.
Until you’ve spent a winter on the streets, don’t criticise those who do what’s necessary to survive.
If you are a squatter, treat the place well. I don’t get you guys who trash a squat. You’re just making yourselves uncomfortable and unpopular.
Riddle me this: you’re allowed to use reasonable force to move someone off your land if they are trespassing. But you’re not allowed to move someone off your land if they are squatting without a court order?
I’ve seen a lot of squats basically turned into community centres or mutual aid hubs. Seems a better use than warehousing air.
I have squatters staying on the roof of our flat block and in our bin storage, it’s awful and they leave so much waste.
Squatting used to pretty common when there were loads of big empty run down houses. I have no issue with it in the right properties.
Jumping into an empty residential property I as pretty low.
Squatting in a building that’s going to be knocked down or gutted and moving out before it blocks the work seems pretty unproblematic to all parties.
I find it a bit rich that they are trying to police who can enter the building and saying people need their permission lmao
In principle, I have no problem with it if a commercial property isn’t being used, and the squatters leave if asked when the property is to be used for something.
In reality, can’t stand them, every squat I’ve every seen has just been trashed for no reason. Why write on the walls? Why break things? Why not look after the place in which you are living for free?
I had squatters in my building at work for just one day taking drugs, stinking out my reception with weed, starting fights with the tenant who wanted them out (obviously) and keeping dangerous dogs inside. That one day was enough. My opinion of them is extremely low.
Rather than contribute any opinion–honestly I think this is basically rage-bait, given that residential squatting’s been illegal for more than a decade and commercial squatting is rare–I’d encourage everyone to read the Squatter’s Handbook, a time capsule of a very different London: [https://donostialdeaokupatu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/squatter-s-handbook-england-13th-edition.pdf](https://donostialdeaokupatu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/squatter-s-handbook-england-13th-edition.pdf) . (Various other editions are available online.)
Empty properties is the real crime
I know someone who owned a few properties both residential and commercial. He told me if he had squatters he didn’t even notify authorities, he had a few blokes he paid who’d turn up in the night and kick them out, and have the squatters beaten up if they’d been a particular inconvenience.
Fully agree with it. If buildings are empty and people are homeless then they should be occupied.
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Have at it. Just don’t fuck with normal people going about their lives and I could care less.
Scum of the earth, should be considered burglars and be removed by force by the police or owners.
It’s a good exercise to incorporate into your training regime, but you have to hold back from the ego lift or you’ll do a number on your knees.
Honestly the system is broken enough as it is. No rent controls means that wealth in real estate is becoming monopolised by large companies and there are PLENTY of empty houses across london to house anyone forced to live on the streets, so to speak. Occupation for political reasons or not is completely valid imo. I would go as far to say as if you own a house in a major city like London and leave it empty most of the time, you should pay double council tax on it. That and proper rent controls would be a step in the right direction.
Arrest them. Send them to prison. Not theirs.
Scum.
Trespass inside buildings and in surrounding enclosed premises (like gardens or carparks) should be criminalised. Just criminalising squatting in residential property didn’t go far enough.
Government want you to hate them instead of the long list of people who fuck us over very much to our face
What do you think of empty buildings held by landlords and corporations while thousands are homeless?
Squatting in commercial premises then go for it. Squatting in residential homes, no.
Real Estate marker is flawed by its mere definition. Some people has been taking huge profits out of it. Public sector did get involed back at the mids of 20st century, and situation was the fairer we have ever had in history.
Everything reversed so quickly and is just exponentialy getting worse.
Squatters? well , they wont last long under the current legal framework.
Not really fair maybe , but it is also time intensive to actually be safeguarding your possesed premisses, some of them will sacrifice that time spent, plus they wont be there forever, so the hassle of moving in and moving out with not much belongings.
Situation is hard folks until we dont bring it to the political scope.
Scum …. Sub human scum!
But kidding aside, the point of empty buildings, rich people holding empty property that could go to better use I can completely agree with. But why they have to trash the places and ruin them through lack of respect means they lose the high ground they think they have and everyone involved owners and squatters alike can do one.
Honestly looks like more stress than it’s worth, I don’t think I’d be able to ever relax living like that.
Squatted various places in the early-mid 90s. London Fields, Wapping, Camberwell. Always left in a better state than they were found in. These days I’m a home owner, but if need be then I’d probably choose to squat one the many empty bank accounts that are springing up around London. There’s an abundance of them, and rather that than a falling down shit hole. You’re much better off with a nice empty apartment in Nine Elms. And the sunsets are lovely.
Depends entirely how much damage they do and if they steal all the copper from the walls when they leave.
Some hippies took over some council housing the council forgot about near me during the 60s as London was depopulating, got legal right to it and the surviving boomers became nimbys!
I’ve been homeless.
I squatted briefly on my road back to a more “normal” life.
I treated the place with respect. As did my fellow squatters.
Until you’ve spent a winter on the streets, don’t criticise those who do what’s necessary to survive.
If you are a squatter, treat the place well. I don’t get you guys who trash a squat. You’re just making yourselves uncomfortable and unpopular.
Riddle me this: you’re allowed to use reasonable force to move someone off your land if they are trespassing. But you’re not allowed to move someone off your land if they are squatting without a court order?
I’ve seen a lot of squats basically turned into community centres or mutual aid hubs. Seems a better use than warehousing air.
I have squatters staying on the roof of our flat block and in our bin storage, it’s awful and they leave so much waste.
Squatting used to pretty common when there were loads of big empty run down houses. I have no issue with it in the right properties.
Jumping into an empty residential property I as pretty low.
Squatting in a building that’s going to be knocked down or gutted and moving out before it blocks the work seems pretty unproblematic to all parties.
I find it a bit rich that they are trying to police who can enter the building and saying people need their permission lmao
In principle, I have no problem with it if a commercial property isn’t being used, and the squatters leave if asked when the property is to be used for something.
In reality, can’t stand them, every squat I’ve every seen has just been trashed for no reason. Why write on the walls? Why break things? Why not look after the place in which you are living for free?
I had squatters in my building at work for just one day taking drugs, stinking out my reception with weed, starting fights with the tenant who wanted them out (obviously) and keeping dangerous dogs inside. That one day was enough. My opinion of them is extremely low.
Rather than contribute any opinion–honestly I think this is basically rage-bait, given that residential squatting’s been illegal for more than a decade and commercial squatting is rare–I’d encourage everyone to read the Squatter’s Handbook, a time capsule of a very different London: [https://donostialdeaokupatu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/squatter-s-handbook-england-13th-edition.pdf](https://donostialdeaokupatu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/squatter-s-handbook-england-13th-edition.pdf) . (Various other editions are available online.)
Empty properties is the real crime
I know someone who owned a few properties both residential and commercial. He told me if he had squatters he didn’t even notify authorities, he had a few blokes he paid who’d turn up in the night and kick them out, and have the squatters beaten up if they’d been a particular inconvenience.
Fully agree with it. If buildings are empty and people are homeless then they should be occupied.
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