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Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 76 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.

These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. "theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️"

You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 minutes ago

Especially empty properties.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

Breaking: local man enjoys licking boots.