Squatters take over.

Reports that eight years ago, more than one hundred homeless families squatted in a vacant municipal building known as Ex-Padelai in downtown Buenos Aires and last November, the city's mayor officially recognized the squatters' community and signed papers selling them the building and funding its renovation. Ex-Padelai residents escaped the most miserable conditions of the villas; Guillermo Voss, the cooperative president; The cooperative owns the entire property; More.