Sleazy title for kind of astounding story—a movement that, backed by laws reclaiming idle land, occupies unused farms to provide housing, community, schooling, and vastly productive farms—e.g., the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America. When police came to displace a recent occupation, they fended them off by singing protest songs
#Brazil #inequality #property #farming #adversepossession https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/world/americas/brazil-land-occupation.html

Interesting. A Singapore house owner attempted to claim some adjacent land through the process of adverse possession (squatter's rights) by claiming that the roots of his tree had occupied the land for the required time.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/house-owner-fails-in-bid-to-lay-claim-to-adjacent-land-after-making-argument

#Singapore #Law #Property #Land #AdversePossession #SquattersRights