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Squatters of the Lower East Side

99% Invisible

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The Edge of Homelessness

Three years after moving to New York City, Maggie Riggly found herself on the edge of homelessness. She and her boyfriend at the time had been living in a warehouse in Brooklyn. A friend told them a group of Squares had taken it over and started to fix it up. It was a place they could live without paying rent to a landlord.

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