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Squatting

Wide view of Almeria in southern Spain.

Migrant farmworkers in Spain living in makeshift encampments have little hope for formal work

Migration

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.

protest

Brazilian housing movements fight surging evictions amid coronavirus

Displacement
A tourist leaps in the air with a backdrop of the skyline of Barcelona

As tourists flock to Barcelona, locals fight to preserve their neighborhoods

Development
A girl rides a bicycle on a balcony in the "Tower of David" skyscraper.

This South American city is home to the ‘world’s tallest squat’

Development
Tower of David, Caracas

Caracas is finally ending the ‘world’s tallest squat’

Development
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Berlin Wall squatters

Berlin Wall squatter development, Lohmule, may be a model for sustainable urban living today.

Haiti National Park Conflict Takes Deadly Turn

Conflict & Justice

Haiti’s president has promised to step-up protection of a key national park, but that would mean kicking out people who have been living there for years.

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.

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Foreclosures still on the rise nationwide

Business, Economics and Jobs

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.

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Spain’s unemployed immigrants

Business, Economics and Jobs

The housing bust and the rising cost of gasoline are a global concern and in Spain, they’re affecting a new group of unemployed — construction workers, many of whom are immigrants brought in during the country’s housing boom

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