Squatters Plight
Submitted by Bryan on 21 May, 2008 - 02:04.
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Squatters do have a serious problem with their living status. Most governments or landowners believe they have the right to remove squatters anytime thats convenient for them.
Here in Trinidad where the government is now constructing large housing estates many squatters are having their homes demolished and have to stand up with their children and watch their dwellings crushed and their belongings scattered about.
This is certainly not very humane. It must be heartbreaking to see your home destroyed and it must be emotionally shattering for children to go through this.
Then follows all the trauma of finding new places to live.
Surely the right thing to do is to build a new home for poor squatters before you destroy the old one and move them into their new quarters right after they are forced to leave the old one.
That certainly doesn't happen in Trinidad and Tobago. Also here the politicians promise them security which, of course, makes them feel safe to continue as they are.
Treating prople as disposable items is not the way to encourage citizens in better living.
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bryan, i am glad you've
bryan, i am glad you've chosen to speak out about this... if politicians don't provide an alternative housing in your country, i heard here, in India, the corruption is such that many of these newly allocated houses are kept by misnisters for their use...sub-letting or what i am not too sure...the poor get poorer and the rich get richer...very sad it is...
Wishing you happiness always!
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Bryan I couldn't catch the ending
Could you clarify what you meant in the paragraph before your final sentence. I couldn't make out what you meant there. Thanks for a wonderful article on the plight of the squatters in your place. Here , we have the govt. building new homes for the squatters before evicting them but many do not have the heart to leave their old squatter dwellings which they call 'home'.