squatters
Too Binz to Fail
Almost seven years ago, a group of squatters called the Schoch family took over some former factory buildings in Zurich's Binz neighborhood. Last February, the city announced that they were planning on massacring the party by converting the building...
Pooping in Trash Bags with London's Squatters
Will the cultural vibrancy of squatting, which offers many young Londoners the "economic amnesty" to pursue their art, be crushed by "Weatherley's Law," which bans squatting in residential properties? We met a bunch of urban homesteaders to find out.
Berlin Story: Adieu, Tacheles
This is typical of the strategy used in dealing with squatters: offering a ten or twenty year amnesty period, after which the original occupants have moved on, passing the torch to a younger, more complacent generation, who are easily steam-rolled in...
Punk Nomads
More than half of homeless teens own a cell phone and will spend the money they get from spare-changing on their data plan over food or shelter.