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SquattingMarch 2025A happy band of hippies brought life to the vacant house in my neighbourhood. I wish they could stayWatching the abandoned house nearby descend into disrepair frightened

Alexandra Hansen. Until the day she started hearing music and smelling incense14 Mar 2025 15.00 CET…… commentsMay 2024David Ormandy obituaryActivist who pressed for improvements to poor

housing by highlighting the harm that it caused to residents’ health27 May 2024 16.44 CEST…… commentsApril 2024Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in LondonAt least six people

lock themselves in Grade II-listed York and Albany next to Regent’s Park and post notice13 Apr 2024 16.25 CESTDecember 2023Squatting is on the rise again in Britain – and in this vicious

housing crisis, is anyone surprised?Jason RodriguesSome are turning to the UK’s many vacant properties for shelter. Could this be a return to the 70s and 80s, asks Guardian researcher Jason

Rodrigues28 Dec 2023 09.00 CET…… commentsSeptember 2023John Turner obituaryArchitect impressed by urban squatter settlements in Peru who then set about persuading the wider world of their

value26 Sept 2023 21.41 CEST…… commentsDecember 2022Reaching out to the squatters from down the street laid bare their fragile existenceRose Lane‘You’re wonderful!’ Beth said. But I didn’t

feel wonderful. I felt privileged to have never experienced homelessness3 Dec 2022 20.00 CET…… commentsSeptember 2022It’s not all coffee shops and hipsters: what we get wrong about

gentrificationLeslie KernCommunities should mobilise against the property industry and its partners, says Leslie Kern, a professor of geography and environment4 Sept 2022 14.55 CEST……

commentsNovember 2021Brief lettersWhy sleeping rough was rare in the 70s29 Nov 2021 17.31 CET18:17The Guardian documentarySindicat: evading eviction in one of Europe's most densely populated

cities – video11 Nov 2021 13.00 CETOctober 2020Other livesMick Hugo obituaryOther Lives: Merchant seaman turned builder who helped set up Hackney Housing Co-operative in London26 Oct 2020

18.31 CETSeptember 2019'Organise to resist’: the radical posters of the Paddington PrintshopOperating from an old factory in north-west London, John Phillips and the Paddington Printshop

revolutionised the promotion of squatters rights and housing campaigns throughout the 1970s and 80s23 Sept 2019 08.00 CESTAugust 2019Inside Exarcheia: the self-governing community Athens

police want rid ofThe central Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia, which has helped house refugees, is in the crosshairs of a government crackdown26 Aug 2019 08.00 CESTNovember 2018The rise of

the 'meanwhile space': how empty properties are finding second livesRather than let properties lie empty, Paris is learning to hand them over temporarily to community groups and startups28

Nov 2018 08.30 CET…… commentsOctober 2018Urban eyeLife in Amsterdam's biggest squat – in picturesAfter 20 years, squatters occupying the Amsterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij former shipya

rd have been ordered to leave. Photographer Sanne Derks met members of the community, who say moving elsewhere is impossible8 Oct 2018 12.00 CESTJanuary 2018Congolese government in rent

arrears for London embassy15 Jan 2018 20.27 CETEmpty homes: if councils won't act, ordinary people should move inLisa Mckenzie8 Jan 2018 13.18 CET…… commentsOctober 2017Freedom for

Frestonia: the London commune that cut loose from the UK30 Oct 2017 07.00 CET…… commentsWhat Pete Phoenix has learned from 30 years of direct action: ‘You have to be relentless’23 Oct 2017

16.34 CEST…… commentsSeptember 2017Observer dispatchDriven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face evictionAnger is growing over the threatened expulsion of

around 1,000 people from an abandoned building in Brazil’s biggest city30 Sept 2017 22.51 CEST…… commentsJuly 2017Squatting makes the world a better place – get behind itAlice

O'KeeffeSquatting culture has been suffocated by new laws, but Grow Heathrow shows that it’s still out there, and contributing to society, says book reviewer Alice O’Keeffe19 Jul 2017 08.00

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