housing

Hello all! My name is Robbie, a housing reporter for Stateline, a nonprofit news outlet covering state and city policy, I hope you are all doing well! I want to be transparent and say that I am looking for perspectives and interviews from squatters for a national news story I'm working on...

Found a good place to squat since my last one was found out. This time there's nobody to come check on the place. However my main issue is getting inside. There's two glass sliding doors and one window that would be optimal entry points, however I can't get them open with this method. Any advice?

An interesting and horrifying insight into how COVID could impact homelessness in the US by causing a mass wave of evictions. The evils of rent and housing costs might come to a head here in the next few months. Probably not. But maybe. Gotta love John Oliver:

@nikhil madhusudhanan submitted a new file to the library: The Hidden History of Housing - Colin Ward - Talks of squatters in the era of the World Wars, after the wars and then in the modern world (2004) Click here for more info!

Not long ago, on Dec. 30th 2019 I decided to bail out of the current living conditions I was under in south central ohio with no plan whatsoever except the experience of the past encoded in my bones. With all my trash packed tight in one bag, I hitched a ride from the sticks to a Microtel...

If you didn't know, like me, now you know. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/us/moms-4-housing-homeless-evicted-oakland-trnd/index.html

This winter I've decided that I need a break from the road after 3 years on full time. My idea is to stay in Portland, because I know a few folks that live there, but I'm having trouble finding a place to live. It's already hard for me to justify paying rent after being rent free for so long...

So I'm not a great writer so please try and stay with me. I'm living in Marietta, Oh due to the fact my partner is about to get out of prison and she is going to be paroled here. I've been trying to be an upstanding citizen whilst here and have even been working part time at a hot dog store. I...

Hi all. I'm a long time lurker. Love this place, and I've gotten lots of valuable info here. Thought maybe I could return the favor. Not last winter, but the winter prior I did this free 9 month wooden boatbuilding apprenticeship (Sept-June) on the coast of Maine. It's a pretty good gig...

Holy Fucking Shit. I am posting this video to inform people, who would want to care, about how terrible the housing crisis is in this country. I ran across this John Oliver video on Bernie Sander's Facebook page. It explains how large corporations are buying mobile home parks, and jacking up...

Beyond Sqaut or Rot: Anarchist Approaches to housing. As someone who has spent a considerable portion of my life fascinated by co-housing and/or coop housing and has visited many variants of such, Im quite surprised that I have never read this.

THIS IS A LENGTHY POST AND I'M GOING TO KEEP ADDING TO IT AT INTERVALS UNTIL IT'S DONE Others can & should share their answers at any time I guess this should be moved to either the Squatting or Alternative Housing forums if it makes the cut __________________ In SF between 2011 and 2015 I had...

Got a summer job here in BC working shit hours (2pm-11pm/11pm-730am shifts) and am living in staff accommodation. Won't go into detail, but the situation here is getting pretty fucked. Does anyone know much about tenants rights in Canada when it comes to staff housing? I only need to be here...

So, I’ve tried to run a punkhouse. Unfortunately, we had people move in saying they were down with the culture and willing to participate in such an environment, and turned out to be selfish posers looking for cheap rent. They don’t want to clean up after themselves, do chores, an didn’t...

hey people, in 2 weeks i'm leaving for the big hitchhiking trip around europe i always dreamed off. because of the cold weather i was thinking of doing some workaway or maybe wwoofing so that i atleast have a roof above my head. from people that i know i heard that it's an awesome way of...

I 'm in my house after 3 months of traveling, and it's so good to be back with my friends and housemates! I'm facing the issue of having to be a part-time housemate, as I'm on the couch until my sublet leaves in May. I'm going to look for other places to stay, so they can have the living room...

So I have being living in ny city on and off for the past 12 years. I want to get affordable housing, as at this point in my life that's what (I think) I want and need. I also don't make enough to qualify for low income housing lottery, and public housing for non drug addicts and section 8 is...

Hi! I'm new here! :D I'm 31 years old looking for a studio apartment for rent in or near Largo, St. Pete F.L. Currently living in Tampa but found a job in St. Pete and need to move ASAP because my only transportation is my bicycle. Also I will like to meet people in the area!

Folks: the site wouldn't let me put this into 'Conversations' so I had to make it an article. Do any of you speak Chinese? Can you get past the Fire Wall? Yesterday, Xi Jingping, and the local officials just evicted thousands of poor, underskilled workers from their homes, under the excuse of...

hey guys, im a 19 year old kid just out of school looking to grow as a person by exploring new environments and cultures before i begin college. i want to move out of Dublin as soon as possible, and am afraid to do so without a solid place to sleep in as im new to the scene. i would love to find...

Hi, I am looking for a adventure. I am keeping my needs to transpiration, food, and shelter. Transportation is hitchhiking, rideshare, or public transient. Food supermarket, cooking, or leftovers from restaurant. But the thing that bugs me the most is shelter. I am planning to use friends...

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Ted's Dead by tony longshanks This is a belated eulogy for Ted Gullicksen, longtime director (or in his own humble words, “office manager”) of the San Francisco Tenants Union (SFTU) and co-founder of Homes not Jails, who was found dead in his bed on the morning of October 14th, 2014. I was a...

Hi, I am an Irish squatter, updating on how things are going in Ireland; The squatting scene here is really taking off, its legally a civil matter until injunctions or ejectment orders are issued. So legally its very similar to the UK before the law changed. There is a massive homeless crisis...

applied to ganas , and a few smaller random ones on fb , most are full or disbanded in nyc. any suggestions ?

US Vets has housing all over the country. http://www.usvetsinc.org/washingtondc/# Also, there are veterans housing places in San Jose, Palo Alto, Sacramento, Eureka, and Santa Rosa. I lived in the one in Eureka for a couple months. It's nice if you like Humboldt County...

Curious of imformation of the kind mentioned above , I think we all are quite familiar with the difficulty sometimes faced by those trying to squat here - im currently trying to figure out somewhere to be , and besides the ever looming "park" option i wanna know if anyone knows somewhere chill...

This is easy: the beach near Lucy Wright Park in waimea, Kauai. Stayed there about six months and discovered island life. can't wait to get back to island life. I'm soooo done with cold weather and watching the waves getting stoned is what the universe was made for.

thought i had a spot to live this morning,,i dont. Through a referal from the county/state i was given a list of boarding houses, there was one in a decent area i chose and called they said they had one bed left. I got there this morning to find the dirtiest grimiest,, i mean grime and dirt...

Me and some friends of mine are working on starting up a housing co-op in Midtown Memphis, TN. Anyone in the area that would like to help out is more than welcome to lend a hand. E-mail me at christhehut@gmail.com or post on the thread.

A friend and i (both males mid 20's) are doing a 2,000 mile bike ride and are going to be in Phoenix for a couple of days in early april (possibly arriving the 6th or 7th). i was wondering if anyone could help us with housing. We would be down to help with house work, or anything else that...

i live in charlotte NC, and im pretty happy here in the city. my dilemma is that i can't do what i want to do in an apartment. i want to find a house with a yard, and get roommates to go in on it with me. - i want to offer some crash space for travelers and food for the hungry. - space for...