After the German reunification, many buildings were vacated due to the demise of former state-run enterprises and migration to the western parts of Germany, some of which were then occupied by squatters.

Since then, the owner of the building must take the squatters to court ( or take illegal action ) in order to evict them.

The Government then opened a consultation entitled ' Options for dealing with squatters ' on July 31, 2011, which ran until October 5.

The squatters who lived there would, when alerted to the impending arrival of law officers, dress as Indians and then ignore the officers.

The Luther Blissett multiple name project first began in 1994 in Italy, no doubt a consequence of his link with A. C. Milan, and has since then been widely used by artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and squatters ' collectives in cities throughout Europe and South America.

The beginning of the village took place then with the installation of mills, the coming of slaveholders and slaves and also with the expulsion of squatters who had in the area.

First he confiscated the lands of traitors, then clerics ( 1823 – 4 ), squatters ( 1825 ) and finally unused land ( 1828 ).

Residents of the Island complained about this problem, leading the then military Governor of the State – Raji Rasaki – to forcibly remove / displace these squatters ( some of whom had legal title to their property ).

His new career found him distilling his own liquor which he then sold to other squatters, the indigenous people of the area, and even to the soldiers of the fort.

Robert Neuwirth writes in his book Shadow Cities that these squatters are exploiting a legal loophole which states that if one starts building after dusk and moves into a completed house before dawn the next day without having been noticed by the authorities, then the next day the authorities are not permitted to tear the building down but instead must begin a legal proceeding in court ( and thus it is more likely one can stay ).

The deal states that the squatters will receive a large piece of land near the fort to start a community in the rural area in between the city of Nijmegen and Arnhem.

In exchange, the fort was handed over to local authorities, who will turn it into a museum, with help provided by the squatters that used to live in Fort Pannerden.

This new business served “ Pig ’ s Eye ” () well until 1838 when the squatters were forced off the land surrounding the fort due to their strain on surrounding resources.

However, the advent of U. S. sovereignty after the Mexican – American War, and especially, the Gold Rush, saw the Peralta's lands quickly encroached on by squatters and diminished by dubious legal proceedings.

Author Robert Neuwirth suggests that there are one billion squatters globally, that is, about one in every seven people on the planet.

In South Africa, squatters tend to live in informal settlements or squatter camps on the outskirts of the larger cities, often but not always near townships.

Other squatters live in shacks, situated literally on a pavement next to the road, with very few possessions.

Many of Malaysia's squatters live on land owned by Keretapi Tanah Melayu as well as at construction sites.

England has made squatting illegal on the 1st of September 2012 as BBC reports: " Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales will become a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters could face jail or a fine.

Ministers said it would offer better protection for homeowners and " slam shut the door on squatters once and for all ".

In protest, squatters in Amsterdam had occupied a former fire department the week before the law began ( returning it to the owners control on 30 September ) and a riot occurred on 1 October when the police blocked a protest and led a horse charge upon it.

The report projected the population of squatters to grow to 90, 000 in the Suva-Nausori corridor by 2006, putting increasing strain on supplies of water, electricity, sewage, and road services.

After the fall of the city, various squatters lived on the site.

Mikasukis and other Seminole groups still occupied towns on the United States side of the border, while American squatters moved into Spanish Florida.

Early residents during the California Gold Rush era lived here as squatters on the Rancho San Lorenzo, and the informal name given to the area was Squattersville.

Arriving there from California in 1866, the English settler George Lovelock ( 1824 – 1907 ) bought the squatters ' right for 320 acres and got with it the oldest water rights on the Humboldt River.

In 1866, a serious conflict between landowners and squatters, resulted in the wholesale eviction of many people who were not living on their own land.

These pioneers on the north side of the river were counted among the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters who lived outside the jurisdiction of the colonial and revolutionary governments of Pennsylvania.

Without the allocation of the available convict labor to farmers, pastoral squatters and Government projects such as roadbuilding, colonisation of Australia would not have been possible, especially considering the considerable drain on non-convict labor caused by several goldrushes that took place in the 19th century.

In 1986 Hamburg squatters mobilised following attacks on the Hafenstraße.

The failure of the KAU to attain any significant reforms or redress of grievances from the colonial authorities shifted the political initiative to younger and more militant figures within the African trade union movement, among the squatters on the settler estates in the Rift Valley and in KAU branches in Nairobi and the Kikuyu districts of central province The Agikuyu soldiers who had come back from the second world war as King African Rifles ( KAR ), having gained military skills resulted to war to liberate Agikuyu from British oppression and colonisation.

In 2011, over 200 illegal squatters were evicted from an area called “ El paraíso ” on the Mactumactzá Mountain, which is an ecological reserve in the municipality.

It was not uncommon for squatters or homesteaders to destroy corner monuments if they felt the patenting of the land would threaten their residence on it.

With the abolition of transportation and the establishment of an elected Legislative Council, the dominant issue became the campaign to break the grip of the squatter ( pastoral ) class over the colony's lands, and on this issue Wentworth sided with his fellow landowners against the democratic party, who wanted to break up the squatters ' runs for small farmers.

In the course of the changes following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the free elections in March 1990 and leading up to German reunification the following October, Friedrichshain began to develop a reputation as a young, dynamic district, thanks in part to low rents and the many empty apartments that also attracted the attention of squatters including many from former West Berlin.

On 14 November that year, Friedrichshain experienced violent clashes when hundreds of squatters were forcefully evicted from houses in Mainzer Straße by police acting on the orders of the Senate of the recently united city, an act which would trigger the fall of the governing coalition when the Green Party withdrew in protest.

It consisted of 26 members from 16 electorates, nearly half of whom were pastoralists or squatters.

However, in many cases where squatters had de facto ownership, laws have been changed to legitimize their status.

Many buildings, particularly in the inner city of Johannesburg have also been occupied by squatters.

One of the squatters said, " About 20 people have lived here over the years and it's been a place for band rehearsals, art projects, people practising dance routines, bike workshops.

The hill was never again a settlement or civic site, although squatters may have used it for a time.

After Minnesota statehood, although the area remained unsurveyed and closed to settlement, some squatters may have encroached into the territory of Badger Township as permanent settlers before 1880.

Although historically only a small proportion of Australia's population have lived outside the major cities, many of Australia's most distinctive stories and legends originate in the outback, in the drovers and squatters and people of the barren, dusty plains.

" Social centres are abandoned buildings – warehouses, factories, military forts, schools – that have been occupied by squatters and transformed into cultural and political hubs, explicitly free from both the market, and from state control ...

Squat ' eviction ' parties occur when the squatters residing in a building have been given a final date for their eviction, and as a final act of resistance organise a large scale party and protest in order to try to withstand the police or bailiffs.

The process effectively prevents the removal of a landowner's right to property without his knowledge, while ensuring squatters have a fair way exercising their rights.

The sign might have originated in the squatters scene in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands ) in the late 1970s.

Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history ... I recall seeing a television program on revisionism a few years ago which closed with Deborah Lipstadt making some statement to the effect that: the real purpose of Holocaust revisionism is to make National Socialism an acceptable political alternative again.

The district would have been occupied prior to this by squatters and their livestock.

Although historically only a small proportion of Australia's population have lived outside the major cities, many of Australia's most distinctive stories and legends originate in the outback, in the drovers and squatters and people of the barren, dusty plains.

In the said areas, the same article quotes that 84 % of the inhabitants tap into the city's electricity grid, and 64 % of the inhabitants have no access to sewage, because of their status as squatters, and their inability to sign contracts with the city.

The existing buildings in the CBD area are insufficient to meet the current demands for housing in the area, and as a result, many under-utilised or abandoned office buildings have been taken over by squatters, or converted into residential housing units.

Other squatters known to have had property around the Portarlington area in the 1840's include William Booth, James Conway Langdon, and William Harding.

The town appears to have taken its name from a group of squatters from Maffra, a village in the Monaro region of NSW, with its location between current Maffra and Newry being written on an early map.

Much of Nicholson's premiership was spent trying to pass a bill which would have allowed small farmers to settle on the grazing lands appropriated by the squatters, but it encountered strong opposition from the Legislative Council, which was dominated by landowners.

" Presently, the LEC site has a main building with a swimming pool, plus 20 cabins that have proven attractive to squatters.

The police have evicted the squatters three times, but Villa Amalia has always re-occupied later on.