Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
by chipdart on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:31AM
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> It's about a landlord who's too greedy (...)
You're letting your antisocial bias show.
The street was packed with businesses. The restaurant was a business hoping to profit by taking over someone else's property against their will. Once their profiting scheme failed, they resorted to pull extortion schemes at the expense of every single person living in a 4 block radius.
You're here talking about greed as if the businesses trying to freeload off of everyone are social justice warriors, when all they were doing is trying to turn a profit by putting everyone around them in danger.
Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
by kjkjadksj on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:04AM
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I’m not sure how they do it in Spain but in the US merely lowering the rent is not always realistic with the way financing values properties based on rent values (collected or not).
It's about a landlord who's too greedy so the renting restaurant had to close. He was still too greedy so instead of renting the place cheaper, it was squatted.
After the squatters got evicted, he was still so greedy he found nobody to rent the place. After desperate people tried to squat again (many times), he was still so greedy he preferred to pay for a security firm, rather than lower the rent.
See? It's all a matter of perspective. I'm not saying the squatters were a great bunch, but i'm certain the owner was a complete asshole who'd rather have empty space than a struggling restaurant.