Abstract
In the later part of 2012, news and media outlets gave widespread attention to the fact that people were living rent-free in homes across the United States while the property owners were left with the burden of evicting the unwanted company in order to gain rightful possession to their property. These stories were not isolated to low incomes areas. News broadcasts shed light on squatters making camp in high-end realty valued in the millions. At the same time, news outlets in the United Kingdom were reporting on the squatting topic, but with a different angle – a recent law criminalizing squatting. In the United States, we were left with the question “How is this legal?” The answer was clear across the pond: “It’s not.”
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, Shannon Dunn
(2014)
"Squatting: Lifting the Heavy Burden to Evict Unwanted Company,"
University of Massachusetts Law Review: Vol. 9:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.umassd.edu/umlr/vol9/iss1/7