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you're conflating things a bit.Not really, squatters can be pretty difficult to get rid of and it will often require going to court to do it legally.
Ideally yes but such a situation can lead to squatting. The main issue is trying to determine whether a squatter has any sort of tenant rights which involves a legal process.
Tenants have tenants rights, which is just renting, not owning. If there is an expired lease, they're still tenants with a rolled over contract. So, there a separate process for ending that contractual relationship. That's eviction.
Squatters have no tenancy rights, but they can potentially argue adverse possession - ie ownership rights. And the actual owner then argues their right to possession should trump the squatters' and the court engages in a multi-factorial analysis. For the squatter to win, they need to be there years, improve the land, be known in the area and for the title holder to do sweet nothing for an extended period of time. I don't think it's all that common.
If somebody just pops into your house for a few months while you are away, they are trespassing, you issue some sort of notice of trespass that you are enforcing your rights and asking them to leave. If they don't leave, you need to go to the court and get some sort of order for ejectment (different names for this). Should take only a month or two to go through that process, or sooner (depends on the detriment to the parties). And if there is a technical loophole affecting ejectment, then the state needs to fix it.
edited - for clarity re terms
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