Squatters

Squatters Invaded His Mom's House—so He Fought Back

Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.

John Stossel | 3.27.2024 11:55 AM

Photos

Reason Staff | 4.1.2019 12:00 PM

Large image on homepages | Dimitris Kamaras/Creative Commons

Anarchism

Exarchia

Jesse Walker | 11.1.2018 12:00 PM

Large image on homepages | Monkey Business Images / Dreamstime

California

A UC-Berkeley Professor Couldn't Evict Her Tenant Because of California's Insane Laws

Mother Jones accidentally makes the case against eviction regs.

Robby Soave | 12.30.2016 1:01 PM

Olympics

When the Olympics Crush a Community

In defense of the favelas

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2016 9:17 AM

Detroit Neighborhood Recruits Some Squatters

Wanted: urban homesteaders capable of keeping an abandoned property in shape. Must be willing to defy the law.

Jesse Walker | 9.18.2015 12:33 PM

Policy

The Enlightened Regulators of Hanoi?

A different approach to unlicensed building

Jesse Walker | 8.26.2014 11:52 AM

World

Jordan's Grassroots, Black-Market, DIY City

A dispatch from the Zaatari refugee camp

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2014 8:10 AM

Culture

Transforming a Tower

An abandoned real estate project becomes a hive of self-organized activity.

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2014 4:30 PM

Bolivia

El Alto: Where Leftism Meets Laissez Faire

Anarchy in the Andes

Jesse Walker | 5.15.2013 2:08 PM

World

DIY Infrastructure in Egypt

A people-power revolution unleashes urban ingenuity.

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2013 3:02 PM

Policy

Squatting in a 28-Story Walkup

Stephen Smith | 3.2.2011 1:54 PM

Homesteading in Haiti: Very Adverse Possession

Jesse Walker | 10.12.2010 1:08 PM

The Wealth of Cities

Jesse Walker | 8.19.2010 3:20 PM

Reason Morning Links: Judges, Gypsies, and AGs

Jesse Walker | 8.3.2010 8:25 AM

Reason Morning Links: Sanctions on Iran, Spies in Manhattan, Squatters in Hawaii

Jesse Walker | 7.2.2010 7:48 AM

Reason Morning Links: Tent Cities, Rubber Rooms, and Hemp

Jesse Walker | 4.16.2010 8:37 AM

In Defense of Slums

Ben Sanders | 3.1.2010 2:13 PM

Colin Ward, RIP

Jesse Walker | 2.17.2010 11:20 PM

Five Reasons for Optimism

As awful as the times may seem, they also contain seeds of hope.

Jesse Walker | 12.17.2009 4:30 PM

Culture

In Defense of Dharavi

Jesse Walker | 3.4.2009 10:10 AM

Can Christiania Survive?

A countercultural enclave in Denmark fights for its life.

Charles Hayes | 2.25.2009 12:00 PM

22 Floors of Freedom

Jesse Walker | 12.7.2007 11:09 AM

World

The People's Police

Jesse Walker | 4.30.2007 9:46 AM

Whole Earth Optimists

Jesse Walker | 1.4.2007 1:07 PM

Cities

Postmodern Politics in Action

Ten signposts, past and present, to the coming decentralized political order

Robert Nelson | 4.2.2006 12:00 AM

Hernando De Soto Interview

Dario Fernandez-Morera | 2.22.2006 1:00 PM

Illegal Cities

Life among the Third World's squatters

Robert Nelson | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

The Other Insurrections

People power south of the border

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2005 12:00 AM

Urban Homesteaders

Jesse Walker | 1.14.2005 4:02 PM

Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone

Jesse Walker | 8.25.2003 7:39 AM

Citadels of Dead Capital

What the Third World must learn from U.S. history

Hernando de Soto | 5.1.2001 12:00 AM