Squatters take London’s housing crisis into their own hands
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/britain-election-housing-squatters/
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Squatters take London’s housing crisis into their own hands
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/britain-election-housing-squatters/
Posted by ClassicFlavour
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Everything costs more, there’s not enough money to keep up with it, there’s not enough housing made available, there’s even less social housing available, and you’ll get turfed out by the police if you try to sleep rough in a tent. Some people are going to be forced into squatting. It’d be mad to look at a perfectly sound empty building and then turn around and kip on a park bench (assuming you can still find a park bench that hasn’t had spikes added to stop you doing that).
I’m not quite sure what the commercial occupancy rate is in London; I’ve seen a range of figures (20%-40%!!), but a wander around just looking in offices is depressing! There’s entire parts of the city which feel abandoned at times. Yet rents have never been higher. I know commercial/office space doesn’t make good living space but I struggle to believe that we couldn’t find innovative solutions to allow for conversions _and_ force changes in the tax system to incentivize conversions.
Until that happens squats make a lot of sense.
Squatting in Russian oligarch “owned” property which they never even fucking live in is a mission derived from god.
As long as ordinary brits are kept out of it.