Do squatters have more protections than legal homeowners?

Looking at it from that perspective, I bet property management companies loves this recently upswing in squatters.
What recent upswing in squatters?
After seeing this thread, I just happened to walk through a room and a center right news show was on and it had some scroll about squatters, and that’s the sun total if squatter news I’ve heard
Obviously we’re are several years into an urban housing crisis with banks sitting on vacant properties so squatting is not out of the realm of possibility, but is there really an upswing?

It seems more like someone hearing a crime anecdote from a friend and complaining about an upswing in crime even though rates are dropping