Movement to Occupy Vacant Houses Spreads

[loopantenna]

Actually the system does not want you to be productive to society, it wants you to be productive in terms of capital, regardless to the influence on society.

[keybobrob]

LET'S TAKE OVER THIS PLACE....THESE BANKSTERS ARE DISGUSTING..........FUCK THEM.. FIGHT THEM...FIGHT THIS CORRUPT EVIL SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RvBChurchBvR]

Lol a lot of stupid comments there I'm happy for this guy and his family finding a home and good on the occupiers for helping this dude hold it down. As you see in this clip the neighbour was quite happy to welcome this man and his family into the street not because the house was empty because he was a good man who cares about other humans

[MystyMary]

great stuff to right an injustice

[EasternMerchant]

something tells me that 2012 is pretty much Open Season for anything!

[lenarita1]

fuck the banks, occupy the houses. people before profit.

[rollredthomas]

@CarpeMetus, I could not agree with you more, I personally would be afraid that my house would be "occupied" while I am away on vacation because they thought it was vacant!

[rollredthomas]

@Rolandzebub, even if the banks did not properly own these properties, that does not make it any more right NOR legal for squatters to trespass the property.

[rollredthomas]

@MrFinger8r, do you even live in AmeriCa?

[CarpeMetus]

You know what will lower the value of a home more than a house not being taken care of? A neighborhood known to have squatters. Ask any family looking for a home if they would be comfortable having squatters in their neighborhood. The answer would be no. Now to sit back and be attacked for having an opinion that differs from others...

[hairtogovideos]

@CarpeMetus

they would no longer be squatters if they occupy vacant homes and fix them up. This could happen to you in this reality. People need homes. many jobs are priviledged , discriminatory, or scarce. be careful of looking down on others because all could be taken from you faster than you know and you'll be in this same position.

[CarpeMetus]

@hairtogovideos That's funny you are looking down upon me from your position of "moral superiority" I've been homeless, my "first" job was as a high school janitor and gardener at my high school. So you know what, I know the wheel never stops turning for all of us. That doesn't change the fact that they would still be squatting which is illegal. Or the fact that it would lower home values. The world isn't rainbows and puppies. So turn the glare of your "superiority" elsewhere.

[funladyinmontana]

glad to see he's pursuing legal ownership. hope it works!

[MrFinger8r]

I think homeless folks, young people and travelers should occupy every single foreclosed building in amerika. And when the cops come to evict, as soon as they are gone, that property should be reoccupied within minutes.

[rollredthomas]

@theamdude, I take it you have completed Property Law? Is it an offense for them to renovate the house to make it "live able" for his family?

[theamdude]

I am a law student. I can't give legal advice, but here are some general thoughts. There is a common law doctrine called adverse possession. If a person openly claims land for a certain period of time and the real owner does nothing, the adverse possessor gains title. It is risky (they mention the possibility of arrest in the video), but if the property is genuinely abandoned, it can be done.

[TheFirekraker]

if we get rid of the monetary system and go to a resource based economy all of this is irrelevant

[TheFirekraker]

why doesn't the occupy movement and the zeitgeist movement join forces

[rollredthomas]

-- If our courts allowed this then they would therefore *have* to allow the squatters to come into our homes and could do nothing about it.

[rollredthomas]

@ClumsyRoot, I agree one-hundred percent with all that you have said. If the government were to allow this, then what would keep people from walking into our homes and "occupying" them?!

[655Robert]

the banks got their money, remember that!

[Kiithknight]

"...there's nothing ashamed with admitting that the system is wrong and is not allowing you to progress and be productive and own your own property and become a productive citizen of society."

Apparently there's also nothing shameful about criminal trespass and property theft. Being homeless must suck, but how does that entitle you to own property? Stop blaming others for your problems and go flip burgers, it's not beneath anyone.

Protip: The property still doesn't belong to you.

[ClumsyRoot]

@Kiithknight

Well put! I too was annoyed by this man's attempt to rationalize stealing by appealing to some vague political grievances. This childish attitude of entitlement is going to sink the Occupy movement.

[Benwoodruff]

Good job in stealing real estate. There is nothing like celebrating people for taking what is not theirs.

[goldengyrl2010]

@Benwoodruff I bet you don't have a problem stealing Iraqi oil, living on stolen lands (from native Americans) or not paying fair share of taxes which is a form or theft. Go stop these squatters if you don't like it. The bankers will love you for it--too bad you're all talk!!

[madebutante]

Excellent! Love you all my people! Here and everywhere!

[overseachininadoll]

"beome a productive person of society...." meaning have many kids? LOL.

[SocialDemocrats]

Foreclose on the banks instead. Confiscate all properties from them and make them the free and clear property of the residents. Evict the banks. They are the real squatters.

[kaushiksays]

Has anyone heard of the Black Panther Party ?

[vrd180]

In Cleveland they have started tearing down vacant homes. The empty homes they have become targets of break-ins by desperate people who strip them of anything valuable. Instead of letting people back into their houses to prevent this, they simply tear the houses down. Perfectly good homes landfilled because the banks have kicked their owners out. Can no one see what is wrong with this? All those resources wasted for no reason. All those people homeless for no reason. This is insanity.

[ClumsyRoot]

@vrd180

Perhaps. But the solution, if there is one, is NOT to allow people to squat in vacant homes.

[slobomotion]

Do these black people understand how badly they speak?

[arscill1]

@slobomotion Do you understand how un-necessary and un-wanted that comment is?

[slobomotion]

@arscill1 Some people just can't stand truth.

[CazyDayz]

they will start to bull doze them down soon like they did in the 1930's when people would not leave there homes the bank would send out a bulldozer and level it. this is what the 1% is about taking wealth from the 99% funny how the 1% have doubled there wealth in the last 10 years i wonder we're all the wealth came from ? duhh pensions and 401k's money dose not just disappear from the system it gets shifted.

[WhatsReallyGoingOnUS]

Putting "organizations" and "community leaders" at the forefront is a BAD IDEA! That would just beg to be co-opted by the world-government bankster operatives that have failed thus far.

The reason the cops cracked down across the US and Canada all on the same day is because their attempt to co-opt the movement failed. The only way to prevent this type of influence is to keep the conversation horizontal ... not to have a hierarchical power structure with leaders.

/watch?v=oqAB4ko6_P4

[WhatsReallyGoingOnUS]

The more they screw us, the more we multiply!

Keep the OWS conversation going. Keep learning. And close your bank accounts.

[TheTrieye]

amazing

[Laoch111]

Listen up corporate right wing fuckers. The worldwide occupy movements are NOT going away. The 99% will win out in the end.

Power to the people!!!

[glynbo68]

CRASH THE BANKS.(dont have a plan yet,but someones gotto think of something soon) start by using credit unions not big banks.

[blunt1984]

This is a great part of the broader Occupy Everything movement. Not just vacant homes, but vacant buildings and lots as well!

[goldengyrl2010]

Squatters rights in full force:)

[ClumsyRoot]

@goldengyrl2010

"Squatters rights"? Oh, you mean STEALING...

[chimandude]

All the homeless folks should move to Detroit, MI...

[goldengyrl2010]

@chimandude Why so they can be homeless in 10 feet of snow.

[chimandude]

@goldengyrl2010 < Hey Pretty Girl... I think Detroit would be the ultimate litmus test to prove or disprove this Occupy Vacant House concept... Property values in Detroit are still in a tail spin and the blight is getting worse... Proof that the Occupy Vacant house concept holds any merit would be a stabilization in property values at a minimum... I would change the name to " Save Detroit"...

[theindiekidable]

I think anyone has the right to occupy an empty house if it hasn't been used in months. It should be the landlords/owners job to occupy it with tenants at whatever rent - no matter how low. It is criminal that hundreds of thousands of houses are empty in UK, and hundreds of thousands homeless or in substandard or overcrowded.

[JimmMyHero]

Tons of homeless people and tons of empty houses....what the fuck

[videolover61]

The banks almost totally destroyed the nations financial system have not even gotten a slap on the wrist. It's sick how corrupt this system is. I have been trying for two years to get a loan modification from Bank of America. They don't want to help homeowners, period They have to be forced to help people cause they are so foul. Fight the powers that be!!!!

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

These banks need to be shut down! The foreclosure rate has been at record highs for years now.

[Rolandzebub]

This will be kept as quiet as possible, but should this becomes a national trend, expect a vicious pushback from the MSM, demonizing and marginalizing the Occupiers as squatters lowering property values, spreading crime and promoting vagrancy. They will stop at nothing to scare the hell out of the public. Once the fear level is high enough, NORTHCOM will begin rounding them up. The Occupiers need a hook, a soundbite that will cut through the rhetoric and connect with people's emotions, soon.

[ClumsyRoot]

@Rolandzebub

The people in this video ARE squatters! You can couch their actions in any idealistic political language you want, but they're still taking something that isn't theirs. In everyday parlance, that's known as STEALING.

[Rolandzebub]

@ClumsyRoot You mean like the banks have done? Squatting is not stealing - it is unused land. You seem terribly concerned with holding these people accountable - fair enough. What about the banks that are foreclosing on homes they cannot even prove they own? What about banks securitizing and then selling derivatives they knew were "crap," or the rating agencies that gave such "crap" financial products AAA ratings? What are you, an investment banker?

[ClumsyRoot]

@Rolandzebub

I'm not defending the banks--I'm defending the rule of law and property rights. (And sorry, but two wrongs don't make a right.)

I absolutely agree that we need to hold banks accountable for their misdeeds. But that doesn't mean I support squatting--which most assuredly IS stealing. (The fact that the land is "unused" is irrelevant; no one is REQUIRED to rent out their property.)

[Rolandzebub]

@ClumsyRoot First of all, it is not irrelevent, property rights include the right of squatters to occupy land that is unused. This is well established. That may not sit well with you, but there is no moral equivalency here - the banks commited fraud, and they continue to foreclose on homes they do not own. You're busy trying to hang the little thieves in the court of public perception, while the big thieves impoverish the entire society. Wake up. This issue is being ignored.

[ClumsyRoot]

@Rolandzebub

The banks "continue to foreclose on homes they do not own"? Please explain.

[Rolandzebub]

@ClumsyRoot Do a Google search on banks foreclosing on homes they don't own. Banks are supposed to receive an actual written title before they can foreclose in most states - this is called "taking ownership" - but they have created an unregulated, privatized system of electronic title transfers, they use to bypass this requirement - look up MERS, or watch Alan Grayson's Youtube video if you want a fair summation of what's going on. Stop fighting the wrong enemy.

[kjr63]

Why are these houses empty? Because the owners don't pay land value tax.

[leptonsoup337]

A lot of the MSM outlets have claimed that the Occupy movement is without focus. Well, I got news for the establishment: it is hard to have a singular focus when the entire system is broken. If the Occupy movement chose to single out just a handful of problems (thus creating focus) I think they would be doing us and themselves a tremendous disservice. You can't ignore systemic problems forever because at some point you end up with a critical mass of "royally screwed" which is fun for everyone.

[Mathenaut]

@leptonsoup337

The Occupy Movement isn't without focus. They have a number of clearly defined ideals, to include accountability for wall street and congress.

Don't expect MSM to pick up on it, though.

[leptonsoup337]

@Mathenaut Quite true... too bad the MSM misses that! Accountability? Pft... accountability is for hippies!

[pacman728]

Nice!!!!!!! Keep fighting!!!!!!!