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  2. Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Despite squatting being illegal, artists began to occupy buildings, and European squatters coming to New York brought ideas for cooperative living, such as bars, support between squats, and tool exchange. [47] In the 1990s, there were between 500 and 1,000 squatters occupying 32 buildings on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The buildings had been ...

  3. Texas legislators want to help property owners deal with ...

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    Texas senators called the May 15 hearing to review state laws related to squatters, or people who illegally occupy a property. They said the law should help property owners kick out unwanted ...

  4. Squatters Beware: States Are Revising Adverse ... - AOL

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    In Texas, where it takes 10 years of squatting to obtain property through "adverse possession," a man named Kenneth Robinson recently tried to claim a $330,000 home in the city of Flower Mound for ...

  5. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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    The term "squatter's rights" has no precise and fixed legal meaning. In some jurisdictions the term refers to temporary rights available to squatters that prevent them, in some circumstances, from being removed from property without due process. For example, in England and Wales reference is usually to section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. In ...

  6. What’s Behind Recent ‘Squatters’ Rights’ Disputes? - AOL

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    Technically, “squattersrights” do not exist—no law purports to intentionally protect squatters, and property owners (theoretically) have a constitutionally protected right to exclude ...

  7. Squatting - Wikipedia

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    Some possess two- or three-story homes built out of brick and concrete which they have inhabited for years. Geeta Nagar is a squatter village based beside the Indian Navy compound at Colaba. Squatter Colony in Malad East has existed since 1962, and now, people living there pay a rent to the city council of 100 rupees a month.

  8. Viral squatting stories are scaring homeowners. How bad is ...

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    Even though incidents of successful adverse possession are rare and squatters enjoy no legal right to occupy a place, they are entitled to due process rights. If a squatter can prove they have ...

  9. Preemption Act of 1841 - Wikipedia

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    The Preemption Act of 1841, also known as the Distributive Preemption Act (27 Cong., Ch. 16; 5 Stat. 453), was a US federal law approved on September 4, 1841. It was designed to "appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands... and to grant 'pre-emption rights' to individuals" who were living on federal lands (commonly referred to as "squatters".)