Australian "anti-landlord" activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners. Jordie van den Berg, also known as "PurplePingers," has been posting the addresses of homes he has staked out in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. Van den Berg

We need more shit like this

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]82•3 months ago

    fidel-salute

    I love how the article is dripping with thinly veiled contempt and scare quotes. I also liked this part:

    On his TikTok, Van den Berg has also visited tenants in distress who have called him for help, exposing poor landlords who leave their tenants in units that require dire maintenance and do not fulfill work orders.

    Oh no, not the poor landlords!

    On their about page it say's they're not just another left or right-wing publication, but a bunch of unbiased neutral free-thinkers. landlord-sus

  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]59•3 months ago

    We need more of this:

    Show

    sankara-salute

    Image context for anyone unaware: This is the "James Connolly House" in Ireland. It was taken over by socialist housing activists and used to house homeless people for zero cost until 100+ police raided the building and made a couple arrests.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]45•3 months ago

    This man is a lawyer.

    Do you know who else were lawyers? Fidel Castro and Vladimir Lenin.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]19•3 months ago

        Lawyers come in both types and they're guys you really want a lot of, like just behind mitsry guys you're gonna want some lawyers on the bill

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]41•3 months ago

    Australian "anti-landlord" activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners.

    So are these deeds like bearer bonds where they have no paper trail of the owner, and whoever physically possesses the document proclaiming ownership is legally the owner? Lmao

    • @theposterformerlyknownasgood47•3 months ago

      Squatters rights were laws passed in a lot of western countries back when you could pass a law that wasn't neoliberal number fiddling.
      Usucaption in general dates back to the Romans

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]28•3 months ago

        Oh so the right wingers just want to embrace modernity instead of retvrning to Romvn trvdition?

        • @theposterformerlyknownasgood42•3 months ago

          Literally no retvrn guy wants any part of roman culture back. Like imagine telling one of those guys we're abolishing the police and making a public holiday only women are legally allowed to participate in. Also the rich are expected to pay for all public festivities which we're having weekly now.

          Edit: I want to be clear that ancient Rome was BAD, but it's funny just how much conservatives would hate it.

          • @theposterformerlyknownasgood30•3 months ago

            We need to bring back greco-roman social mores! Women are expected to be horny and abortion is legal until the kid is legally an adult.
            You can legally sell your kid into slavery 3 times. But not 4 that would be weird.

            • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]22•3 months ago

              You can legally sell your kid into slavery 3 times. But not 4 that would be weird.

              So wait, the same kid or 3 different kids

              • @theposterformerlyknownasgood24•3 months ago

                Same kid. A person who had been sold 3 times by his pater familias (male head of the family) was no longer subject to the legal power of the pater familias. But they were if they had only been sold twice.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]35•3 months ago

      Basically if you inhabit and maintain an abandoned property for some number of years without the owner complaining you get ownership rights. It's why all the crumbling unused mansions in Kensington owned by Saudi princes as speculation have 24 hour human surveillance.

  • SoyViking [he/him]31•3 months ago

    I absolutely adore the way scare quotes are used in the article. It doesn't make any sense. Why is a house where nobody lives "empty" and not just empty? Wh are tenants's description and rating of their experiences with housing scalpers "reviews" and not just reviews? These are normal words.

    Also, bonus points to whoever wrote this for calling the legal process in which occupants can gain ownership over abandoned property stealing (without scare quotes this time).