squatted
Verb
The word is derived from squat
Meaning
of Squat
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Also during the 1970s and 1980s, extensive parts of Woolloomooloo and Darlinghurst were also squatted, along corridors of houses bought to make way for new road works.
In 2010 activists from Occupy Cork squatted a Nama Building in Cork city with the intention of using it as a community resource centre.
Behind them soldiers squatted and stood with assault rifles.
However a section near Madrid has been squatted, becoming a linear city of about 40,000 people and 15 km in length.
In 1649–1650 the Diggers squatted on stretches of common land in southern England and attempted to set up communities based on work on the land and the sharing of goods."
In 2011, the 'Occupy Toronto squat team' squatted a basement at 238 Queen Street West and offered to take on a lease for 99 cents a year.