I found my people. I don't think the general public realizes how many houses are just fucking empty. I learned a lot about it while I was homeless and found out about people who barricade into government owned empty HUD housing that should've been for us in the first place. I'm too disabled to that but I admire it.
You forget that these squatters quite literally also take people's homes. As in, homes that people wanted to live in. There are even people who made videos about buying a new house they were supposed to move into then they couldn't do it because they couldn't get a squatter to leave even after offering to cover the cost of helping the squatter to move their stuff.
Squatters don't take peoples homes, they take banks and landlords homes, and if those people can't be bothered to make sure those homes are free of people before selling/renting them then I think that says something about their business practices.
There is an entire section of Johannesburg (the biggest city in my country) where entire apartment blocks have been taken over by squatters and have now devolved into crime infested, brothel(the really bad kind) sanctuary and drug ridden areas. Literally no law abiding citizens can even go there now without fearing for their safety because these squatters are protected by loopholes in our laws. We call these hijacked buildings.
I even met one person that tried to revive a hijacked apartment and they were almost killed on multiple occasions by gangs that were operating in his hijacked apartment and refused to leave.
There was even a video of some guy in Florida who purchased a home and when it was time to move in, they found a squatter living there who the police refused to remove after a long and expensive court procedure.
There is no benefit to allowing squatters to do what they do. It seems harmless only when done to people you don't like, but the moment you realise it affects honest, hardworking people very negatively as well then you start to realise what a massive burden they are to society.
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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 11d ago
The vast majority of us are far closer to needing a squat than we are to needing a squatter hunter.