Squatting State Resilient Property an Age Crisis Lorna Fox O'Maho… 9781108487740

Squatting and the StateResilient Property in an Age of Crisis\nAuthor(s): Lorna Fox O'Mahony, Marc L. Roark\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108487740, 978-1108487740\nSynopsis\nSquatting and the State offers a new theoretical and methodological approach for analyzing state response to squatting, homelessness, empty land, and housing. Embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts, and reaching beyond conventional property theories, this important work sets out a fresh analytical paradigm for understanding the deep, interlocking problems facing not just the traditional 'victims' of narratives about homelessness and squatting but also a variety of other participants in these conflicts. Against the backdrop of economic, social, and political crises, Squatting and the State offers readers important insights about the changing natures of property, investment, housing, communities, and the .