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Already, bipartisan anti-squatting bills have been signed into law over the past few weeks in Florida, Georgia, and New York, where the incident in Queens sparked outrage.
While reporting only three such cases in 2017, the number of squatting cases in Georgia grew to 50 in 2021 and then 198 in 2023, according to a new report. Here’s more.
Sovereign citizens in Georgia have squatted million dollar homes in DeKalb and Rockdale counties using fake deeds. [27] According to a Florida based lawyer, "we haven't seen this kind of level of squatters since the Great Depression". [28]
A Georgia homeowner was arrested and charged with criminal trespass after she attempted to move back into her own house, which was reportedly inhabited by a squatter, according to WSB-TV. "To see ...
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Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally.
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".)
A Georgia woman was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing after she tried to move into her own home — but was rebuffed by an alleged squatter. “I spent the night on a mat on a ...