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	Squatting is mostly an urban phenomenon. The term generally refers to informal housing whereby, for a variety of existential, legal, political and ideological reasons, people settle on vacant land or occupy abandoned buildings, both private and public. People who squat possess no legal title to land or building, pay no rent for the respective property and live there without any formal entitlement.		Squatting is mostly an urban phenomenon. The term generally refers to informal housing whereby, for a variety of existential, legal, political and ideological reasons, people settle on vacant land or occupy abandoned buildings, both private and public. People who squat possess no legal title to land or building, pay no rent for the respective property and live there without any formal entitlement.