Squatter's rights in modern settings bear less and less resemblance to the squatter's rights of history.
Thanks to all this, it is becoming increasingly clear that squatter's rights have outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had. The time has come to end squatter's rights altogether.
There are many times and places in which pro-squatter groups rights do not even contend that ownership rights are ambiguous, or that the land would fall into disuse and mismanagement without the squatter's taking over.
Squatter activism again revived during the 1990s, as in the case of a standoff between city officials and squatters in the East Village in 1995.
Even worse, some cities like New York City have greatly liberalized squatter's rights to allow for trespassers to claim squatter's rights on a much shorter timeline than what is historically known in cases of adverse possession.
These activists know these squatters have no true claim to the property under traditional definitions of squatter's rights.
The time has come to abandon squatter's rights altogether.
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