Outrage as homeowner is jailed after calling cops on squatter.. and is told to 'think about it from their point of view'

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34. Sigh...thanks for illustrating my point

https://popular.info/p/inside-the-squatting-hysteria

Lot's of interesting stuff at the link, but this kind of stood out.

But after lamenting the scope of the problem, Rogan decided it might be helpful to have some data to back up his concern. "What is the number of people squatting currently, Jamie, in the United States?" Rogan asked his producer Jamie Vernon. His producer responded that he didn't know "how to find that." Rogan suggested "trying Google." When that didn't work, Rogan told Vernon to "ask Chat GPT" and "see what that bitch says." Chat GPT responded that "it didn't have access to statistics on squatting in housing in the US." Rogan then dropped the issue and resumed discussing various anecdotes reported in the media.

Vernon had problems finding the data Rogan was seeking because, according to experts, it does not exist. "Squatting is an extremely rare issue, and there is zero evidence in our data or in any other publications that we know of that the eviction crisis is driven by the presence of non-native renters," Juan Pablo Garnham, researcher and communications manager at the Eviction Lab, told Popular Information.

One reason that squatting is rare is that, almost everywhere, it is extremely difficult to establish a valid property claim by occupying someone else's home. In 16 states, a squatter would have to openly and notoriously occupy a home for 20 years or more.

If you want to understand how a convicted felon and rapist became president, look no further than the "Entertainment Tonight/Access Hollywood-ification" of the "press".

Even on DU people are falling for the "hype".