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Old 06-09-2011, 02:26 PM #10
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Originally Posted by Pyramid* View Post
and what about the following..... it's not about letting them have a roof over their head for nothing more than getting a night's sleep....
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Yeah, lets all stop paying rent and mortgages and go live in someone elses house for free instead!
I'll reply to both of these just to elaborate on my position

Squatters are liable to pay council tax I believe, and if they weren't there would the property owner not have to pay it anyway?

The simple fact is that there are thousands of houses in this country that are just serving absolutely no purpose, completely empty. How can that be fair when we are in the middle of a housing crisis with half a million people with no home at all? Why exactly do you think that is a good thing? At least squatters sometimes contribute to the communities that they squat in, cant say the same for the millionaire owners of these houses that have too much space than they know what to do with

Squatting is not a new phenomenon, there is something of a tradition of it in the UK, back in the days after WWII homeless servicemen with no home to go back to would squat in buildings left empty. It isn't fair just to generalise squatters as people who can't be bothered to work to get their own home.

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