Guardian Comments section Love Activists Debate rages .http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/26/love-activists-empty-buildings-direct-action-homelessness#start-of-comments.in reply to call to further criminalise squatting the last law is massively increasing the housing crisis,street homlessness has risen up to 30%, The Laspo act is proving unworkable in the courts and has caused UNTOLD misery its time for a sensible Common Sense approach to using some of the 1.5 Million empty buildings in the UK."

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In Reply too ...NuReality said:

High time we had laws against squatting in commercial as well as residential properties.

the last law is massively increasing the housing crisis,street homlessness has risen up to 30%, The Laspo act is proving unworkable in the courts and has caused UNTOLD misery its time for a sensible Common Sense approach to using some of the 1.5 Million empty buildings in the UK.
More people have been squeezed from the squatting safety net into the streets,massively over priced rental market,onto sofas or back to live with relatives.
The homeless and housing charities can provide you with the figures and scale of this human Tragedy.
Thanks to the propoganda against SELF HOUSING (Squatting)
the number of fights,assaults and attacks carried out against homeless /squatting people has increased.

Its a Housing War out there and people are being ground piteously beneath the boots of the landlords associations who sponsored Mike Weatherley MP £100,000 to push this law through while ignoring the Public Consultation.In Which 96% said do not criminalise squatting,including Police,lawyers associations Judges,Housing and homeless groups.Yet our Tory Tyrrany Condemned Government knows the score CONsult and iGNORE.
Time for Housing SOLUTIONS not more laws to criminalise the poor who house themselves.....