Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States

Author Hannah Dobbz has squatted from everywhere from a Georgian townhouse in Dublin to an abandoned turbine warehouse outside Oakland, California. In this book she addresses several important questions: What are the socio-economic conditions that lead to abandoned buildings? What philosophies support living in the property of someone else? How do laws change to support those with money and land? And why do some American squatters insist the lifestyle should be inherently dirty?

Ultimately "Nine-Tenths of the Law" is an examination of squatting as a tactic, not an end, throughout the history of the United States and how it can be a tool to fight the neo-liberal status quo.