Foreclosures Create Opportunity For Squatters
Sometimes one person's misfortune can become another's opportunity. That's what's happened in a foreclosed building in Chicago. The owner abandoned the property and the bank has been unable to sell. Now several families are living there rent-free. From our West Side bureau, we report on how they get by.
Billy López, who asks that we not use his real name, doesn't have many options to heat his apartment. He's got a small space heater near the old couch he sleeps on. And he leaves a couple burners of his gas stove on high.





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Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | December 4, 2008 11:18 AM