Last week, New Times
brought you the story of Cassy the squatter, the homeless Haitian mother who
moved into a blue, bank-owned foreclosed house in Buena Vista
with her young daughter. Her tale included a tribe of activists, a couple
broken laws, and a mortgage lender none the wiser.Cassy, whose real name is Marie Nadine Pierre, told her story to South Florida's Channel 10 news last night. Reporter Neki Mohan summed it up this way: "To many homeless advocates, it's a simple supply and demand
In the Nineties, Erick Lyle, then known as Iggy Scam, lived an enviable, punk-ethics-fueled life around South Florida that is near impossible to imagine today. He booked shows at a warehouse venue, the Junkyard, at the bottom of South Beach, and at one point squatted an entire floor of the crumbling former cocaine palace that was the Mutiny Hotel, in Coconut Grove.And he chronicled it all in his main zine, Scam, which he published nearly for free by using the old zinester's trick of scamming ph
