Thursday, March 13, 2014

Squatters

I met a couple of anarchists who were engaged in squatting, that is occupying empty property as a place to live, apparently without the owners knowledge or permission.  If people can move into property you own without you knowing, then it is a good indication you do not really "own" it in any moral sense.

Does that sound controversial?    Not in the law.  In the USA we have what is called adverse possession.  Since property rights are not human rights, your property can be alienated.  (You cannot alienate life and liberty, that is to say give them up or have them taken.)  You can give up you property by selling it, or not using it.  In USA if someone uses your real estate under certain conditions for a set amount of time, then the property legally becomes yours.  Funny twist to this law, the taking must be adverse, against your wishes, open and notorious, and so on.  If you have permission to use property, you cannot take it.

Land reallocation is critical because through nefarious means such as usury nefarious gains are usually invested in real estate.  Great place to actualize leveraged power.  People must be and work somewhere, how about land you "own."

Some Christians have the crazy idea that property rights are inalienable, when in fact the Bible is very detailed on a forced land reallocation at intervals.  Concentration of property ownership is contrary to peace and prosperity. Hard to keep land, as a Christian, for more than a generation or two.

Moslems go one better, in their land unused for three years is up for grabs.

Unused land makes used land all the more valuable.  Any scarcity pushes prices up on what is available.  Here is a tricky problem -
Underused or unneeded buildings total 77,000 altogether, according to the government itself. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that many assets are “in an alarming state of deterioration.” There is bipartisan support for some amount of privatization of these assets and lawmakers should push forward with the issue.
So there are some 77,000 government buildings standing idle. The problem here is one cannot adversely possess government property under the legal fiction you cannot adversely possess what you already own.

We need some sort of use it or lose it law which automatically puts unused "public" buildings at public auction on the courthouse steps (we really do handle it that way) with some sort of designation that the sales proceeds goes to something paid out immediately, some unfunded fed obligation, like bridge repair or something.  Just try to make is not another instance of fraud.

Bringing 77,000 buildings onto the market will lower the value of all buildings, which will contribute to  the economic recovery.

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