Squatting / Occupying / Re-appropriation



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As part of 🔗hacking-housing.

Revisions:
    xxxxxxxx cht6c push <oier <pau
    20200623 quick overview
    20210213 ping




Initial directions


    * Is a base type (Type 5)

See 🔗hackbase-type5 !

Specifically deals with hacker approaches to:
    * scouting, evaluation, decision models
    * sharing
    * reconstruction
    * permanent/temporary
    * augmented security

More directions:
    * documented, replicable, protocol-operated, predictable, stable
    * high level of infrastructure
    * high-tech security
    * "permanently temporary" - quick entry, quick exit
    * reconfigurable & modular inhabitation
    * legal conflict-averse
    * legal-backed
    * stealth
    * economic (financial, attention, etc)
    * exothermic (focus on impact, not just reproduction of living conditions)
    * [...]






    * Related CHT infrastructure tech

🔗tech-tree
🔗hackbase-type2



    * Connection +SQEK

🔗sqek-index !







*** (GENERAL)



SYS -- Squatting in Lanzarote

@Playa Blanca : 5000 persons occupy houses
    <d> i find this really hard to believe, where does the info come from ??????!!!!!!
   <o>  https://www.lancelotdigital.com/lanzarote/el-problema-de-los-okupas-de-lujo-en-lanzarote-salta-a-la-prensa-nacional <-- Here they say 3500 people, is one of the most occupied places of Europe.





? Other squatting domains, and what are their legal characteristics

#toresearch
    * empty lands
    * abandoned boats
    * [...]

Also see 🔗hacking-housing-pad !




(GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: BEGINNING)

* #legal +oier @CP14

    * enter a speculative house owned by the bank
        <- it's the house of nobody

    * the first 48h are crucial
        * be discrete
        * stay inside

    * after, it becomes "the place you live in"
        <- legal protection, Spanish right





>oier check questions !!!




  ? Spanish rights apply for ...:

... Spanish people only with DNI.

______________

??? ... what about:
    * ... Lanzarote residents?
    * ... other EU residents?
    * ... people without EU passport?
    * [...]



  ? Can one use a squat address to apply for "residencia"?

No, you need a paper which says that you are the owner or you are renting the house.





SYS -- Interesting / Alike
:

    * Errekaleor Bizirik @Basque country
        https://itsgoingdown.org/basque-country-errekaleor-bizirik-threat-eviction/

    * group/community vs individual/personal squatting
        @Barcelona >oier
        @Greece >pau's bro
        [...]

    * Notre-Dame des Landes @Nantes
        airport project, now abandoned (?)
        complex installation of original farmers and installed activists
        ZAD "zone à défendre" (a place to defend)

* Spanish list of occupied social places:
    https://15mpedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_centros_sociales









Real / "not-real" squats (###)

if:
    * it's "legal backed" ?
    * anti-squat (anti-kraak)
    * art squats
    * [...]

Is it real?


___________________

What does it mean ?
:
    A/ pay a rent ?
    B/ be hosted by... somebody who
        B1/ owns place
        B2/ pays rent
    C/ own the place
    D/ [...]







*** ASSOCIATED SQUATS


CP14 @Lanzarote +oier

See more at 🔗CP14 !



Paillard @ France (9 years)

NOT a squat because:
    * they pay a rent to the county (owner)
    * they apply for art and other institutional funds to cover residents costs
- 2018 worked well, before they had to pay parts themselves



The Villa @ Antwerp (~10 years)

It's a residental squat in Antwerp, at the riverfront. Houses ~5 people, who pay minimum rent (just costs).


_____________________

The same people run "Tenace", the boat (they own it).

https://boottenace.be
https://www.facebook.com/Boot-Tenace-167138316678463/

They organize concerts there.
Can take ~50 people.
Docked in different places! They try in Antwerp, but are never allowed.
It's a big "inner-shipping" boat. 

More +lies !



<---------------------- (new) associated / known squats ↑





*** HOW TO OCCUPY


1) Find

Check for houses that are empty: 
    * Check the websites of the banks, they have their own real state companies for selling their houses
    * Leave marks in the doors. See that no one is entering in the house.
    * See if there is electricity and water around the house.
    * Check who is the owner: Only squat houses that the owners are the banks or "vulture funds":
        * BANKS: http://www.inmobiliariasbancarias.es (Solvia, Servihabitat, Altamira inmuebles, SAREB (It´s called "the bad bank").
        * VULTURE FUNDS (for example in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, "Blackstone" owns most of the houses)

### how to choose, when there is several options ???



2) Enter

* Decide the place for entering the house and find a exit door.
* Enter the house at night (01:00-03:00)
* Take a selfie in different places of the house.
* Take the maximum furniture and rubbish to put inside the house.
* Change the doors keys.
* One person stays in the home without going out for 48h.



3) "Legalize"

Squatting manual:
    https://es.slideshare.net/CarlosVidalOjea/manual-de-okupacin-okupa-tu-tambien

After 48h, the police can´t kick you out.

Start working:
    * Take the maximum of furniture possibl
    * Make a food order.
    The police will appear, maybe in 1 day, maybe in 1 month.

    You have to tell them that the door was open, that someone cheat you or whatever, but NEVER say that you broke something to enter inside.

    The process of kicking you out is the next one:
        * The first thing they do is to tell the owner that you are in the house.
        * They will contact you for negotiating your exit, they will say that if you go out they will not denounce you and talk about shit, somethimes they pay you money if you go out. 
        * If you say not the first thing they do is to identify who is living (is VERY IMPORTANT that only one person says that is leaving here, if they find more people they will punish all of them, so the rest of the people are just friends, they are not living here). It can go from:
            * The bank take your personal data and demand you.
            * A judgment is made and you have to declare
            * A long process happen and finally they come with a court order and say you when you have to leave the house, if you don´t want to be kicked out with force.
      All the process can last from 6 months to 10 years - it is a lottery.



      4) Setup

      * See if there is electricity and water. If the instalation is done, just fix it bypassing the counter. Sometimes is easy, but sometimes very hard. Is possible to pay someone to do it (around 30€-50€)

      * If the instalation is not made, you can do your own installation.

      * Go to the rubish to find furniture, the people trow lot of vauable things.

      * Just chill and enjoy your new home, until the pigs come to kick you out.







      *** PAD


      [!!] Rename !!!

      squatting?
      → occupying is better

      ... why?:
          * you want a name for the activity, that good, medium-good neighbours, and the police might understand
          * you want to be sincere - your intentions are good
          * [...]

      ... what else might be even better (at least in some conexts) ?
          * re-purposing
          * re-inhabiting
          * (re-)appropriating
          * [...]





      2020/06 push : Why? What is a good life? Is it worth it?

      + individual gains:
          * no need to pay
          * 

      +++ general gains (with potential to free more):
          * can be a general strategy 

      - dangers:
          * can get attacked
          * stuff can be robbed
          * can get driven out of village
          * can create problems for our frens here
          * can clean (putting in work), and then be driven out
          * structure might be dangerous
          * [...]


      Occupying El Jablito 

      :
          1) the "gillipollas" house
          2) the "marine art objects" house



      (more squats we saw)

      Some squats had amazing technology (surpassing CHT in specific fields).

      #maintenance is a big thing

      so:
          * +david was in a squat at 13
          * +david wrote about rog ... XXX🔗antirog
          * +lies is currently squatting in @Antwerp:
              (there is some frags + abstract frags about this, somewhere)
          * +david SQEK experiences
          * [...



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