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The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion ... squatters globally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting #SquatThePlanet #FuckLandlords

Like 12 Sep 2022 at 11:56 | Open on social.wake.st

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crusom :blob_anar_raccoon:

@liaizon "According to a 2003 estimate by the United Nations in the UN-Habitat report, there were about one billion people in squatter settlements and slums" they count slums.

12 Sep 2022 at 12:03 | Open on sunbeam.city

wakest ⁂

@crusom a slum is just a derogatory term for a squatted area.

12 Sep 2022 at 14:38 | Open on social.wake.st

crusom :blob_anar_raccoon:

@liaizon okay, yeah, you're right

13 Sep 2022 at 6:09 | Open on sunbeam.city

Doug Webb

@liaizon Squat the Planet!

For friends in UK (London) there is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Service_for_Squatters

12 Sep 2022 at 12:04 | Open on mastodon.xyz

Prabir

@liaizon or one could call them one billion homeless people one supposes.

12 Sep 2022 at 12:13 | Open on mastodon.nzoss.nz

wakest ⁂

@prabirkc I would unequivocally disagree. People who live in places that the government of those places does not recognize does not make those people homeless. Squats/Favelas/Slums/Camps are most certainly homes and the people who live in them are not homeless.

12 Sep 2022 at 13:24 | Open on social.wake.st

Prabir

@liaizon You certainly have a point there. Would be happy to know more about your take on what we call Bustee or Jhuugi Jhopdi in India or they call Favela in South America. Here sometimes the Bustee exists as a village before the city arrives- so obviously they are not "squatting". Also the government displaces villages for " development"! The displaced are settled in "colonies". And of course there is also a group of economic migrants too- not dissimilar to those in rich countries