“A U.S. law says that “if a house is not inhabited, we can expropriate it.”
Social media posts
Post. Claim dated 16 Mar 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
There’s no federal law that lets people inhabit an abandoned house. States have varying adverse possession laws. In many states, to claim possession, a person must live in the property for a set amount of years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 April 2024, 20 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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