Squatters and THEIR RIGHTS!

My wife and I immigrated to Canada in 1972. We are therefore quite out of touch about the phenomenon of squatters and above all about the then very fashionable issue of squatters rights. In London alone there are properties that standing vacant. And like way things are for is in Toronto, there are the homeless.

So, by 1972, the homeless set up domicile in these vacant properties in London. The problem to evict them became an issue of Law because they asserted that they had this thing called "SQUATTER'S RIGHTS."

It is now 2017, and we thought the problem of homelessness was solved in London - one of the richest cities in the world. 

And now I encounter this:

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/evicted-belgravia-squatters-move-into-another-mansion-nearby-113329109.html

For in one sense to squat in a property you do not own is to take what is not yours. This is either thieving or stealing.

On the other I feel for the pain of being houseless. So, how does the state house those who simply cannot house themselves?