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seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot had been vacant for about eight years after low-income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood-frame shanties in order to provide housing for
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homes and had moved families into some of those homes, in a move it calls "liberating" housing. As of
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the individual is engaged in "life sustaining conduct," such as eating, sleeping, bathing, "responding to calls of nature," congregating and building "temporary structures" to protect oneself from the elements.
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526:Adathakkar, Priyanshu (2007-11-26).
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163:Kensington Welfare Rights Union
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606:Samuels, Robert (2012-02-29).
583:"Shantytown fire renews fears"
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