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Squatting is the Only Affordable Housing

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  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    It was never legal for squatters to move into someone's home (displaced residential occupiers) while they were out and change the locks.

    The law didn't need changing it just needed enforcing.

    As a society we have to offer young people more than just the obligation to work all hours to pay most of their salary in rent to the rentier class.
  • ShALLaX
    ShALLaX Posts: 119 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    lawriejones1 wrote: »
    What do you suggest the over 1,400,000 do to 'man up' as you so wonderfully put it?

    Pretty sure my post already covered this: get educated, become employable. If you have the skills that the job market wants and are willing to offer them, then there ought not to be a problem.
  • DRP
    DRP Posts: 4,287 Forumite
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    E.L.James wrote: »
    Yes I do, do you? Min wage compared with average rents in London is now the furthest out of whack than at any time in history.

    No I don't, hence why I'm asking.

    If you have the data then please can you post it.

    ie. Wages vs rents over time or something else relevant.
  • choille
    choille Posts: 9,710 Forumite
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    About 25 years ago I visited friends who were squatting in ex-council flats at Bethnal Green in London. They had post delivered, electricity & it was all very nice & habitable. The council had sold the whole estate to a private developer who wasn't going to develope it for 4 years.
    There was a magazine that went around that highlighted empty houses.
    Now here at the other end of this island of ours there are so many holiday homes that are used for a couple of weeks in the Summer & affordable housing is zilch that is why we are building out own house- very slowly, as & when we can afford to. I've lived in a caravan for 5 years.
    It's such a ridiculous situation.
    You have people buying up property & renting it out at ridiculous rents & often the tenants have to claim housing benefit which goes into the pockets of the landlords.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    Yes I do, do you? Min wage compared with average rents in London is now the furthest out of whack than at any time in history.

    Well don't live in London then. I can't afford to live there so I don't.
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    houseimprover wrote: »
    No, no I cannot understand squatters. Glad it was made illegal and they can be kicked out alot quicker now!


    The law only applies to residential buildings. Squatters are now focusing on empty commercial or other buildings then the new laws do not apply.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    tim123456789 wrote: »
    people on minimum wage have never been able to afford average London rentals so that comparison is meaningless

    tim

    Not true, how can low earners ever live in London then? Housing benefit is the only reason they can now.

    But not true to say never.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    The law only applies to residential buildings. Squatters are now focusing on empty commercial or other buildings then the new laws do not apply.

    But that would still be a change of use to the commercial building. So it would then become residential if people are living there.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    Not true, how can low earners ever live in London then? Housing benefit is the only reason they can now.

    But not true to say never.

    Don't forget social housing.
  • evanjonesaber
    evanjonesaber Posts: 353 Forumite
    Squatters are nothing more than thieving scum.

    I tell you right now, that if someone squatted in my house, I'd kick seven shades of crap out of them as soon as I could.

    Cheeky sods.
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