[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Problem is there's almost a million homes empty in the UK, over 300,000 of which have had nobody living in them for over 6 months and at the same time the number of people homeless is sky rocketing...

But a house being empty shouldnt mean that people can just chose to live there for free.

I do think though, that while bringing this new law in, the government should be finding a way to give extra support to the homeless though. Especially given that once this crappy new bedroom tax kicks in we will have even MORE homeless people.

But I dont think giving rights to squatters is acceptable. People who own houses are being stuck with massive legal bills from trying to remove the squatters, as police werent previously allowed to remove them and it had to go through courts. Its simply not fair, even if the house was empty, its not theirs to live in.