Category: Travelers

Whose side are you on? Part 2, choose your side

29 May, 2009 (10:26) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Regulation, Slums, Travelers, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
In yesterday’s post, via a this-can’t-be-happening breathless story in the Memorial Day weekend Sunday Daily Mail, we encountered a group of British Travellers who, in the manner of worker ants setting out to build a new colony, have been industriously working nights and weekends to lay out, grade, service, and occupy [...]

Whose side are you on? Part 1, the invasion

28 May, 2009 (10:14) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Regulation, Slums, Travelers, Zoning and land use | No comments

This is a story of land invasion.
 

Do you have permits for this?
 
In utter defiance of the law, a band of informal settlers have chosen to occupy and develop land in defiance of the law. 
A tale from Istanbul, you ask?
 

Gecekondu in Alanya, Turkey
 
Or Sao Paulo?
 

Sao Paulo: Land invasion immediately adjacent to …
 

Sao Paulo: slum redevelopment [...]