Red States Are Suddenly Cracking Down on Squatters — Despite No Evidence of a Crisis

Red States Are Suddenly Cracking Down on Squatters — Despite No Evidence of a Crisis - EXPOSEDbyCMD

State legislatures seem to be obsessed with squatters these days — and the corporate-dominated American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has played a major role in advancing legislation to crack down on them.  As homelessness reaches record highs and over 21 million households nationwide spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent, state legislators have decided what the problem is. It’s not that there are an estimated 1.4 million aban…

Red States Are Suddenly Cracking Down on Squatters — Despite No Evidence of a Crisis

Several Republican states have recently passed anti-squatting bills that resemble model legislation pushed by the right-wing group ALEC.