We occupy the top floors, keeping the bottom floor empty for temporary accomodation for those who want to squat. We then arrange for gas and electric to be turned on and on the same day move the families in. We have tried all the official channels. If people organise and support the new squatters, the scheme works successfully. We're not getting through to the homeless.
People are scared of squatters.
Squatting is insecure in the social context. We need a central information point. If people come you can always help them, somewhere to sleep, and to suss out a house, to squat it, to move them in. They have to be told about it. In squatting you can't be a landlord, because people won't stand on their own two feet.