{"id":83917,"date":"2026-01-24T21:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83917"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:40:24","slug":"squatters-broke-into-our-south-london-flats-theyre-sleeping-next-to-the-electric-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/squatters-broke-into-our-south-london-flats-theyre-sleeping-next-to-the-electric-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Squatters broke into our South London flats &#8211; they&#8217;re sleeping next to the electric meters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1URkMs.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=420&amp;y=174&amp;s=63&amp;d=63\" alt=\"Violet Small at Poet's Court\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Croydon residents fear there is a heightened risk of fire at their housing block after squatters broke into a communal area, leaving debris near fuse boxes and plugging in their own heaters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/squatters-broke-into-our-south-london-flats-they-re-sleeping-next-to-the-electric-meters\/ar-AA1URQAq?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69752fcab5a445439fa4e697570b6dde&amp;cvpid=2632abcf570a4b35e151ff5a48eb7705&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Croydon residents fear there is a heightened risk of fire at their housing block after squatters broke into a communal area, leaving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/squatters.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83919,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83917\/revisions\/83919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}