Seth Tobocman's War In The Neighborhood does a great job of dealing with some of the complexities of the squatting structures in New York. Well worth the read.
robert wood
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> Depends on who's doing the breaking in, I think. Max Rameau of Miami's
> Take
> Back the Land has told me that neighbors are usually quite happy to see
> their (organized, stable) squatters moving into empty houses. A
> neighborhood full of vacant buildings is a bad scene, any way you look at
> it.
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> You got the "homeless" part right, though. Who else would be looking to
> squat? (Speculators, in some parts of the country, but that hardly counts
> as a political activity.)
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> lytlað."
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