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House Bill 61, known as the “Georgia Anti-Squatting Act of 2026”, aims to hasten the removal of unauthorized occupants from residential properties, hotels, and cars, allowing immediate lockouts and treating nonpayment as criminal trespass, which housing rights advocates argue could harm low-income, long-term residents in extended-stay hotels.
