When squatters move in, they bring a new life to the space, often surprising in its incongruity.
From the start, Mr Chavez said he would not use the National Guard to evict squatters.
Kentucky was one of the first states to offer squatters a path to legalization.
While the building has all but been left to squatters and looters, the structure still stands.
Many slum dwellers are also squatters, claiming tenuous rights to the land on which they live.
In 1975, squatters broke in and took up residence there, according to the Sun.
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In September, squatters reopened Friern Barnet library, which was closed in April because of budget cuts.
Early in his own government, Mr Chavez ordered the national guard not to evict squatters.
It has promised to move all squatters in the area to subsidised housing by 2005.
Squatters facing eviction from a property in Brighton have thrown missiles at officials, a council has said.
The arrival of human "squatters" who occupied caves made the bears homeless, leading to their untimely extinction.
High Commissioner for Refugees official confirmed that the land the Poipet squatters are being moved to is mined.
There are reports of squatters breaking into houses, stealing everything they can, and then setting fire to property.
Over the following years, there were frequent break-ins and a series of fires set by squatters, neighbors said.
The tenants, who have paid their rent and looked after the property, are treated no better than squatters.
The hillside homes were boarded up or abandoned and claimed by vermin and squatters, some of who had a pyromaniac bent.
The police arrested 19 squatters who occupied land on a farm earlier this year in Eastern Cape province.
Matters came to a head last month, when a landowner was murdered in a still-murky incident apparently involving squatters.
The squatters had used tin trash burners, running the stovepipes through the windows, but all that had been thrown out.
As for squatters, who steal up to 15% of the nation's water: they may be in for a rude shock.
For most of India's VIP squatters, a house from the government is a home for life - and sometimes beyond.
The government estimates there are 20, 000 squatters in the UK but squatting groups say the real total is far higher.
Politicians who had viewed squatters merely as common criminals began to see an opportunity to curry favor with these new constituents.
Paul Farmer is executive vice president of Partners in Health, which founded a medical center in a settlement of Haitian squatters.
"My fellow squatters knew that I was a photographer documenting the squatting lifestyle, since I was always carrying my camera with me, " she said.
Brazil lacks a central land register, suffers widespread forgery of title deeds and has a long history of squatters seizing land.
These so-called "lifestyle squatters" are now thought to be far outnumbered by rough sleepers and other vulnerable groups in housing need.
However, people who have been made homeless by squatters can legally force entry to the property and demand the trespassers leave.
Many of the squatters have been living on this bleak tract of wasteland, criss-crossed by powerlines, for more than six months now.
Squatters, who have been at the property since November, previously told the BBC they were making good use of an empty building.
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