Far-Left “Anti-Landlord” Activist Launches Address Directory Of “Empty” Properties For Squatters To Seize - The Publica

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We need more shit like this

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I love how the article is dripping with thinly veiled contempt and scare quotes. I also liked this part:
On his TikTok, Van den Berg has also visited tenants in distress who have called him for help, exposing poor landlords who leave their tenants in units that require dire maintenance and do not fulfill work orders.
Oh no, not the poor landlords!
On their about page it say's they're not just another left or right-wing publication, but a bunch of unbiased neutral free-thinkers.
- I think it's poor landlords like low quality landlords, not sympathetic landlords.
  
  Maybe, but I wonder how the target audience will interpret that though, considering the rest of the article is expertly written to make them sympathize with the landlord.
- poor landlords
  Wow what a roundabout way of saying slumlord
- We should send the "author" "pictures" of a "pig" with "poop" on its "balls"
  
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We need more of this:

Image context for anyone unaware: This is the "James Connolly House" in Ireland. It was taken over by socialist housing activists and used to house homeless people for zero cost until 100+ police raided the building and made a couple arrests.
This man is a lawyer.
Do you know who else were lawyers? Fidel Castro and Vladimir Lenin.
- And people say lawyers are bad :fidel-salute:
  
  Lawyers come in both types and they're guys you really want a lot of, like just behind mitsry guys you're gonna want some lawyers on the bill
Australian "anti-landlord" activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners.
So are these deeds like bearer bonds where they have no paper trail of the owner, and whoever physically possesses the document proclaiming ownership is legally the owner? Lmao
- Squatters rights were laws passed in a lot of western countries back when you could pass a law that wasn't neoliberal number fiddling.
  Usucaption in general dates back to the Romans
  
  They're being overturned, though. Squatters better act quick before they're gone completely. :-/
  
  Oh so the right wingers just want to embrace modernity instead of retvrning to Romvn trvdition?
- Basically if you inhabit and maintain an abandoned property for some number of years without the owner complaining you get ownership rights. It's why all the crumbling unused mansions in Kensington owned by Saudi princes as speculation have 24 hour human surveillance.
I absolutely adore the way scare quotes are used in the article. It doesn't make any sense. Why is a house where nobody lives "empty" and not just empty? Wh are tenants's description and rating of their experiences with housing scalpers "reviews" and not just reviews? These are normal words.
Also, bonus points to whoever wrote this for calling the legal process in which occupants can gain ownership over abandoned property stealing (without scare quotes this time).
This is the way.
I don’t know what’s up in Barcelona these days, but in ~2000 you’d see squatter buildings with anarchist banners.
Maybe things aren’t what they used to be. Police evict squatters in Barcelona after hours of tension
Good call, rent sucks and we'd all be way better off without it.
Extremely based but is there an
version of this guy? Seems useful

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