Do you believe in squatters rights?

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Screenwriter · Accepted Answer

I realize this is an issue about HOMELESSNESS and everyone should have a safe place to live. But, if the place someone is choosing to squat in and on belongs to someone else and is NOT a safe place, people don't belong living there.

In addition, squatters do not pay for electricity or sewerage services to take care of their human needs for cooking, cleaning and defecating. So, they pose a health risk to others.

Most of the people who are breaking in and entering boarded homes are drug and alcohol-addicted with mental illness problems. When it's cold, as it is now even in New Orleans, squatters build fires and burn down houses as happens regularly here. Sometimes they're just cooking something and cause these issues.

The same issues occur when these folk are living beneath bridges or in public parks. Many are sick because of constant exposure to elements and the fact that few, if any, get medical care.

This all happened in the '80s when Reagan closed most of the mental health institutions because of abuses that occurred there. But this was no solution and has lead to people who refuse to live indoors because of their hallucinations/lack of medical intervention for their problems. Or with addicted people, they refuse shelters because they can't drink and smoke cigarettes or weed or whatever else they regularly use/abuse.

I know people who went to bat for homeless people only to learn a day after they were housed, they were back on the streets because of "rules" they refused to follow when living indoors.

Finally, there is the housing crisis where home prices have risen too fast for average people and families to afford them AND because of the high prices of homes, few are being built because those few can't be easily sold. Older homes are fetching top dollar, and investors and homeowners want top dollar for rentals. It's a vicious cycle.

Some of this has to do with the fact that our government isn't prioritizing mental health institutions. Those old institutions are long gone, but new ones need to take their places with staff vetted carefully and re-vetted regularly. This was never done in the past, and if it had been many if not most of these abuses would never have occurred.

Not that mental health institutions for states were properly funded, either... This has been a longstanding problem. Once ill people were put away, they were put away in the hear no, see no, speak no evil manner.

So, much has to be done on several fronts to solve these issues. And it will take years and concerted efforts with multiple agencies.

Tamera952 · Accepted Answer

Think squatters rights is bullshit. I personally was affected by this very thing, having squatters in our rental, & due to California having very pro-renters/anti-landlord laws, found this out the hard way. We were informed by the police, that Due to the fact that this bitch lived at the location for over a year, this degenerate & trespasser now effectively has ‘rights’ & we’d have to go through the courts, to officially evict her. So that bitch got to stay an additional 3-4 months & cost us $2,200 to have the sheriff kick her out.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I’ve been squatting in the same house here in New York because there are not enough affordable homes nearby. I’m part of the anti-work movement because it’s my right not to have to go work for a privileged male and contribute to the consumerism that’s causing high housing prices. It’s not as easy as people think. I can’t get a job because, if the people who claim to own the house come back when I’m not there, then I have to go somewhere else to live and I cannot get a job due to my convictions about consumerism and some prior felony convictions. The most stressful thing is having to call the city when the people who claim to own the house I’m in don’t pay their electric or water bill and I have to go to the housing authority and spend hours of my valuable time getting them turned back on because water is a human right as well. I get my food delivered using my benefits card and it’s getting very stressful because of how expensive food has gotten and uber and instacart charge so much now and my benefits haven’t kept up with inflation. It’s really unfair how my rights are violated.

Keyboardkat · Accepted Answer

Absolutely not! If I worked and saved and finally had enough for a downpayment on a home, BY WHAT CONCEIVABLE RIGHT does some scumbag claim to simply take it over and say, "I'm not going anywhere"? What about MY rights? Your right to swing your fist through the air ENDS where my nose BEGINS!

Daniela1982 · Answer

Exactly what rights are those? Hell, who wouldn't want to live in a house and not pay a dime? No! They deserve no rights! More like charge them with trespassing and illegal entry and make them pay back rent and community service, like painting the house and cleaning up the yard of the house they squatted in. If these people squatted in the police chief's house, just wait for them to get kicked out in a jiffy.

FreyaRed · Answer

Squatters generate costs for the owner, that's why the owner should have the right to get rid of them. It's easy in my country, just don't pay power bills three months in a row and electricity company will block power counter to the flat or house. It cost around 150$ the get the blockade away but it's always better than squatters or ex tenant who doesn't want to pay rent. Without power squatters disappear because they are parasites and want to exploit the owner. I guess it works in regions where air conditioning is necessary with taking away AC heat exchanger outside the house. I'm sure parasites don't want to sweat.

gowildcats007 · Answer

Well it depends. My parents had money problems because of health care for our grandma and if we didn't have the thing about not getting kicked off our land, we'd be homeless. What are we supposed to do with no health care let her die? And then a bank going to say you can take the trailer but get off the land and it's got no wheels. And then a company gets bought and shuts it all down all the jobs are gone and now your Daddy can't pay the bills? So we're supposed to go to the city and stay at a shelter with all those people? That's squatters rights too we'd a been raped or kidnaped and put on put on the street if we didn't have that law.

NatalieKeller95 · Answer

nope the homeowner should have every right to pull a gun on a squatter and drag them out of their house by force,

democrats promote things like squatter rights, and wonder why they can't win, it's their own fault but they're too retarded to even realize it

Roldrake · Answer

I feel VERY strongly about this! My girlfriend and I are both squirters and for too long society has had this stigma against our kind. So what if we squirt? Spray the sheets is on us as long as we do our own laundry. I say that squirters must unite and support each other.

Cormac995 · Answer

How is it legal for someone to break into my home live there without permission but if he stays long enough without getting caught, he magically has a right to my house? Squatters rights are one of the dumbe4st laws ever made and should be abolished.

Anonymous · Answer

When my grandparents were in there 20s catholics couldn't get social housing. Local authorities in charge of 2 & 3 bedroom housing regularly gave housing to single women or men who were prodestant. My parents had one child and were living in a caravan by the dump. After getting turned down for a paticularly house which was going to a single woman who taught in the local prodestant school they decided to squat in it. After two or three months local authorities relented.

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

I think squatters are the scum of the earth. They're parasites and democratic cities gave them the ability to be.

hahahmm · Answer

Nope. And if somebody tried that on my property they would get hauled out on day 1. If they tried the game of acting tough/violent they would end up regretting it.

exitseven · Answer

No, letting illegal aliens live in private property is preposterous. I own firearms to protect my family and property from violators. I would consider squatters violators.

MrOracle · Answer

I believe they have a right to fines and jail cells.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Only insofar as that they are people and have basic human rights to things like decency. You can't have people doing wild shit like moving into someone else's property.

Anonymous · Answer

They're right within the American spirit.

Squatters take what they want from others that weren't able to defend their territory. That those owners didn't protect their properties better is on them. It's the American way.

LiamJHayden · Answer

If it is a truly abandoned property and the person is willing to repair it and live there, then I do not care. If it's some loser moving in while people are on vacation or that type of thing, no.

MisterWack · Answer

I felt I had to explain why I said, “no” though 92% agree so I guess I don’t have to lol

Drumlin2001 · Answer

In general no. But there are cases where buildings have been totally and genuinely abandoned where it best they get used for something

Agape93 · Answer

Nope. You squat on my land and don't leave that same day, you're never leaving again.

QuietRunner · Answer

No. Unless the building has been publicly declared abandoned by the government officials for 20 years with a clear declaration posted every year on when the property becomes forfeit for public auction.

Blueeyes81 · Answer

There may be a few cases I could get behind but as a whole, fuck squatters. Most are just a leach on society.

bolverk · Answer

NO, not if the the property clearly shows that someone is living there.

Anonymous · Answer

I don't care if they are homeless, anyone who puts the rights of squatters above the rightful the owner of a property is an absolute fucking moron.

Anonymous · Answer

After my brutal experience with them absolutely not. If it was legal to shoot...

Dongie · Answer

No! Those who do could lose there property then maybe they would see.

Anonymous · Answer

Isn’t it like twenty years? Or am I confusing that with something else?

Knightwatch27 · Answer

When did squatting become a right? What I know is that there is right of ownership.

Anonymous · Answer

No I don't, I believe in using lethal force to get rid of them.

Anonymous · Answer

The only right they should have is the right to take a bullet from the owner.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

They have a right to be shot dead trying their BS.

abc3643 · Answer

Only on toilets.

Dargil · Answer

The 10% don't own property.

jshm2 · Answer

There is no such thing.

Notherndude84 · Answer

Pay your rent or get the f**k out.

katiesmuff · Answer

Hell no!

Crazzyyworld · Answer

I think it should be illegal

Anonymous · Answer

What are squatter's rights?

robocop666 · Answer

If a house is vacant for sometime yes

UrsulaY · Answer

No. I do not.

TallAnon · Answer

Absolutely not

jimmy2 · Answer

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