Oh Dear: Use it or lose it

[AlfredJPruffock]

Very good DP, very civil minded and a great help for the cause.

Doubleplusgood.

[Lucifer Box]

But how is that going to prop up the property market? They need to be given a house each confiscated from the filthy digusting middle class pool of second homes or buy-to-lets.

[xoggoth]

I suggest this would be challenged under the Human rights act which has already effectively killed off the adverse possession AKA squatter's rights.

The European Court said:

"The taking of property in the public interest without payment of compensation reasonably related to its value is justified only in exceptional circumstances...... this principle is not confined to taking a property for public purposes but is equally applicable to the compulsary transfer of property from one individual to another"

[TheMonkey]

I'd just torch the place to be 100% honest.

If my property is TAKEN, I'd rather torch it than let some no good scummer have it.