To stabilize its housing market, Detroit city officials are on a mission to clear tens of thousands of abandoned, dilapidated houses – remnants of the foreclosure crisis – throughout its city, but squatters are preventing them from bulldozing the homes. photo credit: ellenm1 via photopin cc Detroit does not allow occupied properties to be demolished.
Squatters Causing Chaos in Tarrant County, Texas
December 7, 2011 by
Squatters are descending on Tarrant County, Texas, in their droves in order to take advantage of a unique loophole in Texan law that is allowing them to set up shop in some of the most luxurious and prestigious properties in the county, reports the Associated Press. So many squatters have moved into the county in