Aged 32, Ethel was of similar Scottish-Irish ancestry, and hailing from a prominent squatter family of Victoria.

There, they became squatters on a European settler's farm and were expected, as was the case with other African squatter families, to do the regular and seasonal jobs for wages.

A few homes had been reoccupied, by one squatter family or six.

This was to be done by assisting the squatter families to demolish their shacks and to move their possessions to the new location.

The community, ANHI, and the local government developed the following format: 175 semi-finished row houses, 40 apartments units with a total of 450 apartments for squatter families.

After being handed back in 1948 the hall stood empty for a while and was invaded by a dozen squatter families who caused a considerable amount of damage to the fabric.

And they lived there voluntarily, because the $10 or so a squatter family could clear in a day was better than the alternatives.

He relocated some 1,800 squatter families out of San Juan to Taytay, Rizal, at no cost.

A total of 1,708 squatter families were shifted following court cases, resettled to the North Gombak Orang Asli settlement and planned villages, it said.

Cutting the opposite way, however, is that home ownership increases a squatter family's wealth; all else being equal, wealthier families work less.