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squatters and squatter cities around the world
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- Violence as Women Protest in Zimbabwe
- More Squatter Evictions in Paris
- Evicting many for the crimes of a few
- Evictions in South Africa
- Two Wrongs Don't Make Mugabe Right
- Living amidst the rubbish of Kenya's slum
- The Philippine Debt Divide -- and what to do about it
- Delhi Demolition
- Zimbabwe: Mass Evictions Lead to Massive Abuses
- Housing goals ‘not ambitious enough’ to match urba...
- Vacation Among the Squatters
- Communities hold together despite gunbattles
- Micro Credit A Loser in Brazil
- Just Move 'Em Out of Town
- Bogota: Displaced Occupy Homes
- Ashamed of the squatters? No: ashamed of ourselves.
- Delhi squatters threatened
- No squatters, no evictions
- Squatters Build Their Own Sewers
- French Government Starts Drive Against Squatters
- Thought Crime
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- --news from Robert Neuwirth-- I recently (January 2020) signed a contract with Beacon Press for a new book of reportage on the economics of community. I'm also working on a collection of short stories about economics called The Book of Derivatives. Backstory: I've written two previous books: Stealth of Nations (on the global growth of the informal economy) & Shadow Cities (on the global growth of squatter communities). I live in New York City and do most of my writing on manual typewriters.
2 comments:
Government and People should show no mercy with such people who run business from residential premisis.
Reasons:
+ These people pay no tax even when they can
+ These people deal in black money
+ If they want to sell things let them do as street hawkers and face the same hardships.
No mercy, anon? Exterminate all the brutes? I think you protest too much.
Yes, most squatters don't pay taxes. But hey: they don't get government services. Taxes are a quid pro quo for infrastructure.
No, most squatters are not dealing in black money. They are dealing in legal goods and services.
And yes, the fact is, these people do operate very similarly to street hawkers and face the same hardships.
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