Sunday, March 25, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayer-funded nonprofit Picture the Homeless teaches how to squat in city buildings - NYPOST.com

EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayer-funded nonprofit Picture the Homeless teaches how to squat in city buildings - NYPOST.com: It’s breaking and entering for dummies.

Picture the Homeless, a Bronx nonprofit that has received at least $240,000 in taxpayer money in the last five years, is giving a crash course on squatting — and city-owned buildings are a prime target.

Two weeks ago, board member Andres Perez held a teach-in on how to wrest “control” of vacant apartments. He called it “homesteading.”

“The best time to enter a building is in the late hours,” he advised a group of about 20, who gathered in front of the half-empty East New York housing complex Arlington Village.

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