Squatters

The name may sound funny but this is no laughing matter. Squatters are becoming more and more common in cities and urban areas. They are people who don't have a home or who have ran away. These people take refuge in abandoned houses, apartment buildings, mills; basically anything with a roof and shelter from the wind.

Places like Detroit who's homeless population keeps rising struggle with this issue. Abandoned houses are the answer to some but others stray away from them. Normally the floor can be littered with used needles, used condoms, and dead rodents. There is also the risk of another squatter occupying the same house and hurting another.

Many buildings can be burnt down by squatters, sometimes on purpose. Thousands of trash fires cause many tragic deaths a year.

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