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In this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 photo, North Las Vegas Code enforcement officer Matthew Meanea looks over a backyard pool at a vacant home that had been occupied by squatters in North Las Vegas, Nev. North Las Vegas and the rest of the Las Vegas area is grappling with a squatter problem, fueled by a big inventory of empty houses abandoned by people with deep financial problems when the economy crashed ? and by the widespread use of bogus leases, the Las Vegas Sun reported. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP) LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT