Sentences with phrase «squatters in an abandoned building»

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The Metropolitan police say that most buildings that squatters live in have been abandoned or are otherwise empty, but still such sensible actions, to use an empty usually industrial building to sleep in, are deemed criminal.

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).