The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said.
Squatter’s rights wouldn’t be applicable here, time aside.
The point of squatter’s rights isn’t to try to generate more housing in random nooks, but to force regularization of the situation – like to encourage property owners to act to eject people now rather than waiting fifty years and then, surprise, enforcing submarine legal rights.
Using squatter’s rights requires that possession be adverse and open. Like, you can’t secretly hole up in a corner somewhere, as the person in the article did. You have to be very clear, have everyone know that you’re living there. The property owner also has to be making no efforts to remove the person. Those restrictions aren’t just arbitrary – they’re to limit it to situations where is a long-running divergence between legality and the situation in place and where nobody is attempting to rectify the situation themselves (either via selling rights to live there or ejecting a person or whatever).
Squatter’s rights wouldn’t be applicable here, time aside.
The point of squatter’s rights isn’t to try to generate more housing in random nooks, but to force regularization of the situation – like to encourage property owners to act to eject people now rather than waiting fifty years and then, surprise, enforcing submarine legal rights.
Using squatter’s rights requires that possession be adverse and open. Like, you can’t secretly hole up in a corner somewhere, as the person in the article did. You have to be very clear, have everyone know that you’re living there. The property owner also has to be making no efforts to remove the person. Those restrictions aren’t just arbitrary – they’re to limit it to situations where is a long-running divergence between legality and the situation in place and where nobody is attempting to rectify the situation themselves (either via selling rights to live there or ejecting a person or whatever).