House Squatting- I'll Be Interesting To See If It Catches Back On

[KittyWampus]

There was a time in NYC where a few areas housed squatters for quite a while.

Here on LI, I can think of THREE massive developments of extremely large, new houses built so close to each other it looks like no zoning was applied.

Then there are all the houses being vacated due to repossession.

In some other countries, squatting is much more tolerated.

I don't know of anyone who does this now.

Last I ever heard of any sort of thing in NY it was the people living underground in Manhattan.

[skooooo]

1. there was a thread here..

...maybe a month or so ago about this. It's happening in California, I think.

[Warpy]

3. It was Florida

where a man is matching homeless families to unsellable properties that have largely been abandoned to weeds and vermin.

My guess is if the squatters keep the lawns trimmed, nobody will call the police.

Nothing screws up property values worse than abandoned housing.

[whistle]

2. Just say NO when served eviction papers

[here_is_to_hope]

4. Squatting isn't as difficult as some think...

In the early 1980's, we moved into a huge house overlooking Hollywood Blvd., right above The Magic Castle. We had the power and water turned on within a few days, cleaned the place up with a few new windows, changed the locks and simply made the place our own.
We were four UCLA students who had been living in our vans and cars, we heard about this house from a film student who used it for shoots.
We got our mail and bills, did all the upkeep we could afford.
For almost three years.
I moved up North after UCLA so I don't know when the party ended for the other students who were living there by then.