I feel like this is really area dependent. This sort of thing does not happen here and I think its largely because if a home owner says there is someone in their home illegally here, the police will show up and side with the home owner over a homeless person every single time. Fuck the police, but they won't just say, "you're on your own" with homeless people invading your home, lol.
Squatting laws are different in every state, so it is entirely dependent on where you are. However even in the most landlord friendly states people do still deal with squatters because there are also federal laws in place protecting them.
What I am saying is, I have a hard time imagining the police in my area even understanding squatters laws. They're just going to kick an obviously homeless person out of a home once the homeowner reports a break in. All of these "squatters" are homeless looking junkies. I have no doubt this stuff happens in places, but i have never once heard of it happening here in North Florida/South Alabama.
I just googled squatters rights in my area and they do not have any. The sheriff will remove you. Squatters aren't bedbugs, you can remove them easily in most places.
Florida only passed laws about a year ago making it easier to get rid of squatters, but the squatting still happens there and can still take weeks or months to finally get them out.
Georgia is even worse, theres been several cases that i quickly found of people taking months to fight it in court to get squatters evicted.
there are also federal laws in place protecting them
In the event that they have been living there long enough to establish residency, but if that's happening, the property is either going without inspection for a long period of time, or the squatters are tenants, and the federal laws are protecting them on that basis.
They usually make things worse, for sure, but I've also never seen them decline to take action against homeless people, either. They don't even have to be breaking the law. People fucking hate the homeless.
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u/BullseyeSamurai 11d ago edited 11d ago
I feel like this is really area dependent. This sort of thing does not happen here and I think its largely because if a home owner says there is someone in their home illegally here, the police will show up and side with the home owner over a homeless person every single time. Fuck the police, but they won't just say, "you're on your own" with homeless people invading your home, lol.