Police have previously been accused of standing by or supporting the land invasions and ignoring court orders to evict the squatters. |
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It has been one month since squatters occupied the old Woodwards building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. |
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It was a drastic shift in policy that ended two decades of routinely evicting squatters. |
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Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building used by squatters. |
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Although Duvenage has been through all the legal channels he has been unable to either sell his land to government or evict the squatters. |
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Many Roma in Western Europe are squatters, occupying condemned buildings while trying to find more suitable accommodations. |
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On September 16, the courts issued an injunction asking squatters to leave the building. |
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In 1989, municipal authorities under a previous mayor had expropriated 750 acres and evicted thousands of squatters. |
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The city council continued its crusade against bad buildings, evicting illegal squatters from several bad buildings. |
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The minister said the man acted contrary to the law and advised all land owners to follow laid down procedure when evicting squatters. |
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Last year, the building was occupied by a group of squatters, who claimed they were protesting against buildings being left empty in York. |
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The squatters were evicted a week later but a tent city that went up around the building persists. |
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He has backed the invasions, saying the squatters are simply reclaiming land stolen by colonialists. |
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Commons were enclosed, and waste land reclaimed, by landlords or squatters, with consequent extinction of common grazing rights. |
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The early squatters relied on convicts and emancipists to provide the labour on their stations. |
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Police continued to keep a close watch on the squatters to ensure that the makeshift homes were not re-erected once the demolition was completed. |
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Early pastoralists, or squatters as they were often called, lived a hard and pioneering life, often in isolation with few if any comforts. |
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We are also working with the police to identify vandals and squatters, one of whom has been evicted from a ground-floor flat. |
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The previous Victorian act, the Land Tax Act 1877, was directed to lands owned by squatters, what were known as landed estates. |
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Following a few weeks of begging on the streets and sleeping in derelict buildings, he falls in with a friendly group of squatters. |
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He said any police intervention was likely to have a dire effect because some of the squatters were now armed with automatic firearms. |
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The air smells of smoke from the campfires of squatters who live on vacant lots, next door to software executives and movie stars. |
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However, this reserve is constantly invaded by hunters, squatters, and lumberers who modify the natural environment. |
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On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters. |
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According to Alamsyah, most of the squatters in the area work as garbage men, scavengers and do other odd jobs. |
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As building inspectors, fire marshals and riot police rally against them, the squatters continue to fight for decent shelter and survival. |
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Total said it had been in the process of decommissioning the petrol station when the squatters moved in. |
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From the 1850s it referred to small farmers settling on Crown lands occupied by squatters. |
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So if squatters happen to move in before he can resell his investment, he simply shows them the door with a baseball bat. |
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They moved into runs in the drier back country rather than deal with established squatters and selectors. |
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The squatters settled in the flat part of the ravine, on top of the cemetery, but did not build a good city in terms of urban development. |
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Finding themselves dispossessed of everything they owned, they became squatters in their former land. |
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The existence of one billion squatters might suggest that ownership is overrated. |
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To make things worse, the city administration has blamed annual flooding and the worsening condition of overpasses and bridges on squatters. |
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The plan aims to clear squatters from government-owned land to make way for infrastructure and commercial development. |
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Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained. |
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But as regards health and safety for squatters, there's not much that can be done if the building they are occupying turns out to be dangerous or structurally unsound. |
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The situation was compounded when some owners emigrated or absconded, some sold to slumlords, and others abandoned their buildings, leaving squatters to take over. |
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It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out. |
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Secure metal sheets were welded across windows and doors at the former 50-room hotel and restaurant to prevent squatters re-entering the property. |
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Let there not be a repeat of what has happened in nearby Zimbabwe where thousands of squatters have been forcibly removed from illegal settlements. |
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On Saturday morning, about 4000 squatters rocked up at a piece of land in the Bredell area in South Africa's industrial heartland, the Gauteng province. |
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This 27-year-old British-born former model and scuba-diving instructor stumbled across a colony of almost 100 squatters living in shacks next to passing trains and vermin. |
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The Prawer-Begin bill implies that the Bedouins in these unrecognized villages are squatters. |
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These conditions also existed in abandoned buildings occupied by squatters in New York and in buildings run by slumlords or taken over by the city. |
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Disused and neglected, the hall was invaded by squatters who occupied the building until it was gutted by a fire in 2002, which killed five people. |
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The Johannesburg council, however, plans to evict the squatters so that the building can be revamped as part of its inner city regeneration programme. |
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The court rules that the squatters were illegally occupying the land. |
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Such juries would be unlikely to evict squatters from land owned by a wealthy entity that left the land untouched, i.e., treated as an investment. |
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These millions of folks, in effect squatters illegally occupying untitled land, cannot ever use their houses for collateral for loans or have any recourse to generate wealth. |
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The demand for self-government in New South Wales in the 1840s came from the rich squatters who objected to Governor Gipps attempting to make them pay more for their land. |
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With little effective recourse, the Government reluctantly accepted the presence of the squatters and handed over Crown land for nominal lease and licence fees. |
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Fences are being torn down and on my own ranch squatters have snared 2000 impalas, 365 other antelopes, 20 zebras, two cheetahs, two elephants and one wild dog. |
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The squatters are living amid human and animal excrement and filth. |
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Archaeologists around the world use drones to speed up survey work and protect sites from squatters, builders and miners. |
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She and husband Vernon, 56, who farm 7500 acres at Banket, believe Mugabe is paying squatters. |
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By the early 1850s the era of the squatters had passed on the Bellarine Peninsula. |
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Stelae were no longer raised, and squatters moved into abandoned royal palaces. |
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While so-called cyber squatters typically seek money from start-up firms or even large corporations requiring a certain Web address, OpenDomain. |
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Cyber squatters, therefore, are a big issue, especially for high-profile retail brands. |
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The squatters had found that out when he blasted away at their hounds. |
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After failing to obtain justice against squatters on his land from the Mexican courts, he determined that California should become part of the United States. |
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Moves have also been made to foil attempts by cyber squatters to cash in. |
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In Australia, squatters were large landholders and, like the large plantation owners of the Old South, a kind of aristocracy, referred to as the squattocracy. |
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During the Interregnum, however, squatters had occupied Windsor Castle. |
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All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters. |
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While the city government wanted the squatters out to build a parking garage, most of the population wanted affordable housing to be built in the area. |
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I reflect on how easily the building could fall victim to squatters and, in a moment of bolshiness, think it would serve the negligent owners jolly well right. |
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Other squatters known to have had property around the Portarlington area in the 1840s include William Booth, James Conway Langdon, and William Harding. |
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