Squatting
Migrant farmworkers in Spain living in makeshift encampments have little hope for formal work
Many migrant farmworkers in Spain say they can’t afford housing, so they live in makeshift plastic housing near the farms where they work. Local governments have tried to remove these informal settlements and relocate people to shelters far from the farms — but they keep building back.
Who Gets to Keep Saadi Gadhafi’s $16 Million House in London?
The $10 million house on London’s Millionaire Row is now occupied by squatters but it once belonged the Gadhafi family. The Takeaway talks to the lawyer trying to track down the Gadhafi family assets’ to return to the Libyan government, next.
Foreclosures still on the rise nationwide
Foreclosures are not just yesterday’s headlines but today’s continuing nightmare. The real estate shakeout continues and with it, growing problems for mayors of cities big and small who have to oversee abandoned properties and neighborhoods now beset with crime, squatters, drug sales, waste, abandonment, disarray and shrinking tax rolls.