Article proceeds to talk about how giving something away for free is a bad thing
:reddit-logo: wants to wring hands about zoning laws
I mean that land is all stolen, so no, I wouldn’t take it. I’m sure that’s not why that article is against it though lol
If you live in the US or Canada and you’re not Indigenous, then you’re on stolen land. That’s not “yet you participate in society”, that’s free land is free land and unless there are too many caveats (as there are in this case), there’s no shame in taking it and saving the tens of, or more often, hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to have a permanent roof over your head.