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Overview[edit]

  • Squatting is the long-term act of repurposing derelict property or land without the permission of the owner. DEFINITION
  • It occurs worldwide and Robert Neuwirth has commented that there were over 1 billion (one in seven) squatters worldwide in 2004. He predicted this would increase to 2 billion by 2030 (one in four), and 3 billion by 2050 (one in three).[1]

Artists[edit]

Many artists and musicians have taken advantage of the option of living in a way free from paying rent to pursue their emerging careers.

In the UK, original members of The Police, Henry Padovani and Stewart Copeland were both squatting in London in the late 1970s.[2][3] Joe Strummer's first band was called The 101ers and it was named after 101 Walterton Road in Maida Vale, west London, where the band were squatting at the time.[4] Strummer's next band The Clash recorded Combat Rock at the rehearsal studios at Frestonia. Residents of Frestonia included Heathcote Williams and David Rappaport.[5] Joe Rush and the Mutoid Waste Company started off at the Carbreakers Gallery at Frestonia.[6]

Sade lived with her then boyfriend writer Robert Elms in a squat in Tottenham in north London in the 1980s.[7] Likewise, comedians Harry Enfield, Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse were squatting in Hackney in east London.[8]. Jimmy Cauty lived at Trancentral, a squat in Stockwell, London, described by Melody Maker as "large and rather grotty". Cauty heated the kitchen by burning all the gas hobs on full.[9]

Alison Goldfrapp lived in a squat off the Old Kent Road in south London.[10]

The Thompson Twins[11]

The Ex (band) are former squatters from Amsterdam.[12]

In the USA, actress Rosario Dawson grew up in a squat on the Lower East Side of New York City. Looking back she recalled it as "an incredible mixture of art and resistance and radicalism and off-the-gridding."[13] Stza and other members of the band Leftöver Crack have lived at C-Squat, also on the Lower East Side.[14] Courtney Love lived for a time at the ABC No Rio squat.[15]

Moby squatted in Connecticut.[16]

Writers[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Whilst writing Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World Robert Neuwirth lived in squatted settlements in Brazil, India, Kenya and Turkey.[1] Christian Wolmar co-edited Squatting the real story from a squat in Villa Road, south London in the late 1970s.[21][22] Authors of individual chapters included Piers Corbyn, Ann Pettitt and Colin Ward.[22]

Fiction[edit]

  • A Squatter's Tale is a 1997 novel by the Nigerian author Ike Oguine.[23]
  • Magnificence is a 1973 play by Howard Brenton exploring 1970s far-left political radicalism, which was restaged in 2016 after not being performed in London for over 40 years.[25]


Films and television[edit]

Grande Hotel Beira which is documented in Night Lodgers
  • Lefties was a three part BBC documentary series focusing upon leftist politics in the UK in the 1970s. Part one examined Villa Road, a street of squats in Brixton.[28]
  • Night Lodgers is a 2007 documentary film about people eking out an existence whilst living at the former Grande Hotel Beira in Mozambique. It is directed by Licínio Azevedo.
  • The Strategy of the Snail is a 1993 Colombian film directed by Sergio Cabrera. It concerns a group of squatters who have lived in a large building, for some time. When the previously absent owner wants to evict them, the squatters decide to delay the process and take as much with them as they can.[32]
  • Two Up, Two Down was a 1979 British television sitcom about a couple moving into a house with squatters and deciding to share it with them.[33]

Theatre[edit]

Reports[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Neuwirth, R. (2004), Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-93319-3
  2. ^ Wedel, Mark S. (11 July 2007). "The Punk Police". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ Wright, John (16 April 2017). "Henry Padovani: 'I started out earning £5 for each gig with The Police'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. ^ Gould, Mark (25 August 2004). "Squat 'n' roll hero". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Frestonia declares its independence: It happened here". Time Out London. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  6. ^ Vague, Tom. "PFF 2005". www.portobellofilmfestival.com. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  7. ^ Mahoney, Elisabeth (22 November 2011). "Radio review: From Frestonia to Belgravia – the History of Squatting". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  8. ^ Higson, Charlie (1 October 2015). "Charlie Higson: my days squatting with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  9. ^ Stubbs, David (16 February 1991). "Pranks for the Memory". Melody Maker. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/202
  10. ^ Sawyer, Miranda (21 March 2004). "Miranda Sawyer meets Alison Goldfrapp". The Observer.
  11. ^ Hodgkinson, Will (13 July 2018). "Pop review: Tom Bailey: Science Fiction". The Times. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  12. ^ "'Mudbird Shivers' Is the Ex's Propaganda of the Deed". PopMatters. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  13. ^ Taylor, Trey (15 August 2018). "Rosario Dawson on how New York made her". Dazed. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  14. ^ Stephenson, Hunter (2002). "Leftover Crack: NYC Squatter Ska Core to End the World A Friendly Fireside Chat with the Stza". Rag Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010.
  15. ^ Scordelis, Alex (27 August 2014). "Courtney Love Brings Anarchy to Hollywood". Paper. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  16. ^ Wheeler, Brad (3 June 2016). "Moby reflects on his early life and influences in his memoir, Porcelain". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  17. ^ Krule, Jackson (3 March 2015). "Squatters of the Lower East Side". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  18. ^ "The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  19. ^ Legassick, Martin (16 January 2012). "Review: No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way". Red Pepper. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  20. ^ "Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies". PBS. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  21. ^ Whelan, Brian (20 December 2013). "What's left: the ghosts of Brixton's radical past". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  22. ^ a b Wates, Nick; Wolmar, Christian, eds. (1980). Squatting: The real story. London: Bay Leaf Books. ISBN 0-9507259-1-9.
  23. ^ Okonkwo, Christopher (2009). "'Coming to America': Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African Immigrant's Narrative". In Emenyonu, Ernest N. (ed.). New Novels in African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 130–144. ISBN 9781846156892 – via Cambridge Core.
  24. ^ "The Good Terrorist". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  25. ^ Hitchings, Henry (31 October 2016). "Magnificence: A memorably strange vision of revolutionary zeal". Evening Standard. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  26. ^ Robey, Tim (23 January 2014). "Dark Days, review". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  27. ^ "In Krakende Welstand". www.ravagedigitaal.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  28. ^ "BBC Four - Lefties, Property is Theft". BBC. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  29. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Miracle in Milan". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  30. ^ "Squatter's Rights". Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  31. ^ Canby, Vincent (13 April 1984). "Screen: Down-and-Out Youths in 'Suburbia'". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  32. ^ Staff, Variety (28 March 1994). "The Snail's Strategy". Variety. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  33. ^ "Su Pollard". LeftLion. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  34. ^ D'Andrea, Di Valentina. ""Emergency exit" on stage at the Piccolo Bellini theater". Napolike. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  35. ^ Count me in: Surveying for tenure security and urban land management. UN HABITAT. 2010. p. 15–18. ISBN 9789211322286.
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