• HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    10 months ago

    squatters rights precede the founding of the United States and have nothing to do with renters rights. You’re just wrong about why these laws exist.

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      10 months ago

      Precede

      Bet… but the issue is the government who currently controls the land and enforces the laws.

      You don’t go breaking Constantinople’s laws because they were once different in Istanbul.

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          10 months ago

          Yes it is, I mixed up the names. Go figure a guy tries to reference a song from 70 years ago about a governmental shift from 570 years ago got the details wrong lol.

          So sorry to wrack your noggin. I’ll put it in a simpler way;

          When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

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      10 months ago

      You’re talking like a Sovereign Citizen.

      I’m talking about the very specific laws that prevent people from being evicted if they’ve been residing on a property for N months without following a very deliberate and drawn out legal procedure so that landlords cannot evict a family from their home of many years because of some missed rent payments or because they want to upgrade the place so they can charge more to a new tenant. Those are the laws that keep the sheriffs from just kicking down doors, at least in some states.

      I’m not taking a moral position on squatting. My friends and I squatted in an abandoned house while I was in high school, although most of us didn’t live there full time. If I noticed someone squatting tomorrow, especially in a corporate owned home, I would not have seen it. But the laws that I’m talking about were designed to protect tenants from having their lives unfairly disrupted, and I’m arguing that even if people are against squatters, we still need to protect tenants’ rights.

      I would have thought that was abundantly clear.