• The politically connected San Francisco Tenants Union, which has helped shape the city's housing policy for years, links to a list of properties where people can squat

• Through a closely associated organization (with whom it shares a website) the union offers a how-to guide for 'stealing' other people's homes

• The associated organization in question, Homes Not Jails, recruits homeless people to do organized takeovers of vacant buildings, sometimes permanently

“There are two basic problems squatters have in gaining tenants’ rights:They are not paying any rent.They are living there without the landlord’s permission.But as impossible as it seems to get past these hurdles, it is do-able.”So explains Homes Not Jails, a squatting advocacy group, before offering a how-to guide to illegally occupy someone else’s property in San Francisco. The tone is brazen. The group notes that some people squat for “political reasons” because they believe that “paying money for housing (and others making money off housing) is immoral” and brags about how the