Reblogged from Ian Bone:

The 21 year old homeless woman killed when a tree fell on her tent in Exeter - and  incredibly described as 'camping' in local media - was sleeping in the grounds of an empty council building. Now I don't have any sure local information on the building but it would seem possible that the anti-squatting laws played a role in her ending up in a tent in a storm rather than safe in a building.

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