My friend told me at a festival the other year that he reckoned that one of the reasons the govt was criminalising residential squatting was, to stop a mass wave of homeowners squatting and occupying their houses.as austerity kicked in he claimed thousands would lose their homes.
During the miners strike people who could not afford to pay their rent or mortgage put up a squatting notice which enabled them to hold onto their homes for many more months, in a complex legal situation , enabling many to eventually find the funds and save their homes.
It puts another spin on the govt saying the law was needed to protect homeowners from squatters.
Was the law needed to protect the govt from homeowners.
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