Monday 6 February 2017

Bring back squatting – it’s the solution to our housing crisis | Life and style | The Guardian

Bring back squatting – it’s the solution to our housing crisis | Life and style | The Guardian

Occupy Group Squat at Old Street Magistrates Court, London, Britain - 21 Dec 2011
 Occupy protesters at the disused Old Street Magistrates' court in 2011. Photograph: Equinox/REX Shutterstock
For those of you who think that we dreaded baby boomers are to blame for all the suffering of the young, it may please you to know that many of us are also having a tough time. More than three million of our adult children are living with us, have never left, or are coming back, and we are all stuck together in one dwelling, like it or not, possibly for ever. Or we’ve bankrupted ourselves, or downsized into a bedsit, if we had anything to downsize from, to help those children buy or rent a home, because the housing market has zoomed up into la-la land.
Meanwhile, there are an estimated 610,000 empty homes in England, more than 200,000 of which are thought to have been empty for more than six months, and homeless people are trying to sleep on spikes. Mad or mad?

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