During the twenty years after the Second World War, housing began to be seen as a basic right among many in the west, and the British welfare state included many policies and provisions to provide decent shelter for its citizens. This article focuses on the period circa 1968–85, because this was a time in England when the lack of affordable, secure-tenured housing reached a crisis level at the same time that central and local governmental housing policies received wider scrutiny for their ineffectiveness. My argument is that despite post-war laws and rhetoric, many Britons lived through a housing disaster and for many the most rational way they could solve their housing needs was to exploit loopholes in the law (as well as to break them out right). While the main focus of the article is on young British squatters, there is scope for transnational comparison. Squatters in other parts of the world looked to their example to address the housing needs in their own countries, especially as privatization of pub...

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蹲：为避难所而战，1970年代至1980年代

第二次世界大战后的20年间，住房开始被视为西方许多人的基本权利，英国福利国家包括许多为公民提供体面住房的政策和规定。本文的重点是大约1968-85年，因为这是在英格兰，当时缺乏负担得起的，有保障的，有保障的住房达到了危机水平，同时中央和地方政府的住房政策因无效而受到了广泛的审查。我的观点是，尽管有战后的法律和言论，许多英国人仍然生活在住房灾难中，而对于他们来说，解决住房需求的许多最合理的方法是利用法律漏洞（以及将漏洞消除）。虽然本文的重点是针对年轻的英国擅自占地者，有跨国比较的余地。世界其他地区的屋者都以他们的榜样来解决他们本国的住房需求，特别是在将出版业私有化的时候。