I find these abandoned properties more than mildly infuriating when we think about the level of homelessness here and everywhere else.
I wrote a blog over 11 years ago about it. At the time there were 700,000 empty properties in the UK alone!
The question is. Why is this still happening?
It makes interesting content for sure but why hasn't anything changed with regard to this waste of much needed housing resources?
It boggles my mind.
In the 1970's squatting was very popular in abandoned buildings so of course the government made it illegal!!
They made it illegal? It still goes on, and I know for a fact some of the places I visit house the homeless (illegally). Why they would want to stay the night is mind-boggling. I guess it's better than freezing outside, but these places are creepy.
When the options are freeze to death or squat its a no brainer.
Yeah they changed the law a while back. They'd rather let these places rot than house people?
So dumb and short sighted.
An empty house deteriorates much faster than an occupied one.