Man devoted to eliminating squatters taking over Southern California homes

Finally, a true hero defending the poor housing market that is doing so poorly….

How many of those SoCal homes had previously been taken over by bougie profit speculating developers and landlords?

I would support the squatters if it's always million + dollar residences that have just been sitting idle.
- I think that's usually the case. Yeah, a squatter could be waiting in the bushes for you to go to work so they can break in and set up shop, but they'd know that would lead to a fight, so they'd aim for unoccupied houses where they'd be left alone

Recently, squatters took over a Beverly Crest mansion and turned it into a wild party house where hundreds of rowdy guests would show up every night.
In February, another group of squatters took over a Hollywood Hills mansion and used the property to produce OnlyFans content.

I hope these are the squatters he's focusing on and not desperate homeless people who found an unoccupied 2 bedroom house to sleep in.

Yeah, he needs to focus on homeowners who can afford to pay him, not those pesky middle income people
- "Pesky middle income people" who own a house in L.A. that they aren't using?

Bet you $100 he is breaking the law almost every time

Actually he's not, he is using a loophole whereby the owners sign an official lease with him for him to reside there.
The other tenant(s) do not have a lease and therefore are not within the legal right to complain.
edit: He also doesn't do it directly for profit, thus bypassing other laws. His site explains it in a youtube video here: https://squatterhunters.com/about/
- The website doesn't really explain anything though, and even says that the laws should be amended
  Why would the legal world take much longer and many more dollars to achieve what this guy can? Why wouldn't everyone just sign a lease to their friend?
  If the landlord is aware of the squatters and then enters into a lease intended to deprive them of possession, how is that not just an end run around the law?

This guy just found a niche job as the bouncer for the 2nd/3rd/nth homes of the ultrawealthy, and he's trying, and apparently news outlets are helping to promote it as a good thing. Most people don't have a problem with squatters because they actually live in the house they own.

He isn’t helping only the ultra wealthy
- he charges his clients anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on the case.
  He's not "helping", he's running a business. Also, only the ultrawealthy have homes like those he has removed people from, and you can tell from his YouTube channel that he's certainly targeting a specific audience.

There are more empty homes in the United States than there homeless people.

But the market says the problem is there isn't enough home building going on. What a joke of a world we live in.

If we had a squatter living in our house, my wife would just tell them that I'm finally making the correct portion size when I cook dinner.

If a home is unoccupied, it should be a squatter’s right to occupy it.

If you can’t be arsed to find a tenant for a place, that place should be open season for tenants!

So let me get this straight.
If I spend my hard earned cash on a house. For any reason I leave for a while. Maybe my work requires I relocate for. (It doesn't matter what the reason is). Because I'm not there that means you can move in?
Talk about seriously entitled.
- Or you buy a new house, and while your old house is on the market for sale, someone breaks in and claims it as their own while you're stuck paying for it, can't sell it, and run the risk of having it completely trashed.
- What’s even more entitled is you thinking you have a right to shelter you don’t even use when hundreds of thousands nation-wide cannot afford shelter due to people like you hoovering up unused homes.
  You know what your attitude is called? Parasitical and greedy.

The YouTube video has over a million views in 4 days Video on YouTube

Good, fuck squatters and fuck squatters' rights.