Friday - March 20, 2009
City Council forced to give squatters a list of all its empty properties.
Now this is really bizarre with a large ‘B.’
It just seems that as time marches on and new breakthroughs are made in medicine and technology and as life gets easier for many, (maybe too easy?) people are becoming more and more demanding and dreaming up new ‘rights’ and often if not mostly, at the expense of a hard working majority. The taxpayer.
I am totally lost on this dumb ass issue. I do not understand English law. I do not understand why it takes so long and so many court visits to remove people who are in a place where they don’t belong to begin with.
As screwed up as things may be in the USA in all matters where libtards have a say, and they have far too much as it is, I can’t see this sort of stupidity working in the states. Europeans scoff at us on the gun issue BUT .... since we have the means to protect our property and would be squatters know that, it’s unlikely these creeps could pull this sort of thing off with any prospect of success.
Ah but over here .... things are way different. Here’s a comment on what I’m posting and ranting about.
“They may not want to be part of the system but they certainly know how to play it - this is disgraceful and about time squatting was made a criminal offense instead of civil! A friend came back from a break to find his home (his only residence) now contained squatters and they had changed the locks so that he couldn’t get in and there was nothing the police could or would do about it!” - anne, Feltham, 20/3/2009 13:02
I can not imagine the police doing nothing about it anywhere in the USA. Or ... have I been away from home for too long?
Council forced to give squatters a list of all its empty properties
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:45 PM on 20th March 2009
A council has been forced to give details of every empty home in its area to squatters because of a legal loophole.Lambeth in South London had to hand over the list after squatters submitted a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request.
The Labour-run borough provided details of an estimated 800 properties despite council officers’ fears that the move could lead to a marked rise in squatting in the borough.
Critics will ask whether the coup could be used as a precedent by other squatters’ groups.
They accuse the local authority of ‘incompetence’ in the way it handled the request from the Advisory Service for Squatters, submitted in September last year.
An advisory service for who? They have an Advisory Service for Squatters? WTF? Should that not be “burglars? What the hell is the difference?
Liberal Democrat opposition leader Ashley Lumsden said a senior council source told him that housing officers had earlier committed ‘a grave error’ by publishing a list of all vacant properties in the appendix of a council document.
When the squatters presented their demand, the information was already in the public domain so the request could not be denied.
But the council said it had been forced to give out the information because of a legal precedent set by another council.
A spokeswoman for Lambeth Living, which manages the borough’s council housing, said: ‘When responding to FOI requests we have to operate within the letter of the law.
‘A legal precedent had already been set in response to a similar FOI inquiry to Bexley Council.
‘On challenging the request, they were instructed by the Information Tribunal that they had a legal duty to provide the address details of empty properties which were not owned by individuals.’
She added that the number of Lambeth properties with squatters had fallen over the past six months from 49 to 45.
The incident is not the first major embarrassment for Lambeth in its struggle with squatters.
Four empty blocks of flats at Limerick Court on the border of Streatham and Balham were occupied by more than a hundred people for six months until they were evicted last summer.
Two years ago at least 100 armed police officers used stun grenades in a huge raids on a property in Kennington which had been used as a squat for decades - finding several kilos of cannabis, crack cocaine and six rounds of live ammunition.
Councillor Lumsden said the Freedom of Information incident was in a long line of blunders by the housing department that has seen it overspend by an estimated £23 million, and the number of empty council homes double since 2006 to close to 900.
He told the Streatham Guardian: ‘The administration seems hell-bent on destroying public housing in Lambeth through a mixture of brain-numbing incompetence and sheer bloody-mindedness.’
Please understand my irritation and rant on this sort of thing doesn’t include those who through misfortune or health or something they honestly couldn’t avoid. Sometimes there are folks who really are in dire straights and simply find themselves “squatting” in some god forsaken building or under a bridge in a box. I am thankful I’ve been so lucky as to not know first hand what that must be like. I have to wonder about the many I’ve read about who choose that lifestyle. It’s just beyond my imaginings. Who in their right mind would want to live like that?
But there are people and the number grows if I can believe what I read, who are simply leeches. You can see them on street corners almost anywhere with hands out. Some actually have apts. or even houses to go back to after a hard days mooching. And others simply enjoy the idea of squatting anywhere they please and daring anyone to do anything about it. To make matters worse, in todays legally advanced times there are those who pander to them and find “loopholes” to make things easier for them to carry on with this kind of activity.
I don’t blame the squatters half as much as I do the idiot left wing types who make it so easy. And the lawyers who work on their behalf under the cloak of “rights” of any kind they can dream up. BAH!
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