Sentence examples for occupy vacant from inspiring English sources
He was training several other advocacy groups how to identify and occupy vacant properties.
In Atlanta and Minneapolis, activists helped families occupy vacant bank-owned homes.
A favela typically comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials.
The new buildings, to occupy vacant space on the campus at an estimated cost of $50 million, will add a town-approved total of 200,000 square feet to the existing 265,000 square feet.
The court said that the city's 2002 decision not to renew Stapleton's permit to occupy vacant city-owned land on Staten Island's waterfront was not "subject to judicial review".
The maximum growth rate of Chaetomorpha sp. was more than two times higher than that of the aforementioned species, which enables this alga to rapidly occupy vacant niches in stagnant water.
In the 10 years he was with the committee, he defended impoverished peasants who had occupied vacant fields and took on illegal loggers whose activity was threatening to dry up the river basin that provides water for the town.
Back in east London, the young mothers of Focus E15 became celebrities when they occupied vacant council properties on the edge of the Olympic Park in the London borough of Newham.
Newham's housing shortage hit national headlines last year when a group of single mothers occupied vacant council homes in protest at plans to evict them and demolish a housing estate.
Mary Ceruti, executive director of the Sculpture Center, which has moved to Long Island City from Manhattan's Upper East Side, says the neighborhood can't duplicate the experience of Williamsburg and Greenpoint -- two communities in Brooklyn that are filled with artists occupying vacant industrial space.
The fight by the so-called E15 campaigners, who occupied vacant east London flats last month in protest at plans to demolish a housing estate, came to be seen as a microcosm of London's housing crisis.
