Thursday, 5 November 2009

Squatters make most of empty London homes

FEATURE FOR AFP

The Telegraph: Priced-out Londoners turn to empty homes


VIDEO: Central London is one of the most expensive places to live on the planet. But hundreds of properties -- amongst them mansions and former embassies -- are left empty by their owners, often leaving the way open for communities of squatters to set up home. One multi-million pound property, in London's famous Leicester Square, has been taken over by an art collective offering a rent-free space to cash-strapped performers.





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