Sentence examples for poor squatters from inspiring English sources
It is handing out titles to poor squatters in Caracas slums.
For desperately poor squatters like Ms. Souza, Mr. Edmar is a patron saint who has championed her family's right to stay put.
De Soto and Delatour told the president that the first step was to title poor squatters in places where there could be no conflicting claims: the 40percentt of land owned by the state.
Days before its fifth annual summit meeting in Libya, the African Union rejected Western demands to condemn mass evictions of poor squatters in Zimbabwe, saying that the forced uprooting of several hundred thousand people was a domestic matter.
Some were already living in the area when their homes became engulfed by the zone; others moved in after 2003 as poor squatters or high officials; still others lived in violent neighborhoods in Baghdad and lined up for work every morning at the frequently bombed checkpoints.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The incessant rain that killed at least 251 people last week has raised lingering questions about this Olympic city's emergency readiness and revived a long-dormant debate over the poor squatter communities that have sprung up in areas at risk of flooding and landslides.
When neglect and humidity caused the houses to rot and droop and develop rusty scales, there was a second abandonment, to poor people, squatters.
The student body, 620 pupils in grades one through six, is split between the children of military officers and residents of the poor and violent squatter slums on the hills above the military base.
They tread a delicate line between punishing her for her embarrassing behaviour and not losing the benefits to the party of her popularity among poor shack-dwellers and squatters.But this was no ordinary week.
Lacking title to his land patch or milk cow, and bedeviled by local bureaucrats from getting it, the poor man remains a squatter.
Mirpur presents a classic case of income inequality, with predominantly middle-class people living in this area, on one hand, and very poor populations living in squatter settlements, on the other.
