Squatter's laws? Is that like adverse possession? You mean if somebody takes up in the house they get to keep it? The town doesn't auction it for taxes? These tax funded law firms make me sick. Tell me I am missing something. So the tax payers pay for the heat, the electricity, food, and law fees?
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Squatters+rights
A method of gaining legal title to real property by the actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession of it to the exclusion of its true owner for the period prescribed by state law.
A Trespass may commence adverse possession, but there must be more than temporary use of the property by a trespasser for adverse possession to be established. Physical acts must show that the possessor is exercising the dominion over the land that an average owner of similar property would exercise. Ordinary use of the property—for example, planting and harvesting crops or cutting and selling timber—indicates actual possession. In some states acts that constitute actual possession are found in statute.
Open and Notorious An adverse possessor must possess land openly for all the world to see, as a true owner would. Secretly occupying another’s land does not give the occupant any legal rights. Clearing, fencing, cultivating, or improving the land demonstrates open and notorious possession, while actual residence on the land is the most open and notorious possession of all. The owner must have actual knowledge of the adverse use, or the claimant’s possession must be so notorious that it is generally known by the public or the people in the neighborhood. The notoriety of the possession puts the owner on notice that the land will be lost unless he or she seeks to recover possession of it within a certain time.
It was often applied in settling unused land; I’m not making it up or supporting it. It has nothing to do with anyone paying anything for the squatters.