Squatting - Wikipedia

The majority of squatting is residential in nature. As a phenomenon it tends to occur when a poor and homeless population makes use of derelict property or land through urban homesteading.[1] According to a 2003 estimate by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), there were about one billion people in squatter settlements and slums.[2] According to an academic, Kesia Reeve, "s

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Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land and/or a building – usually residential –[1]that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own