Empty Homes Programme News Today

The number of long term empty homes in Bury is on the increase, new government figures show.

The lacklustre pace of new builds is often cited as a cause of increasingly unaffordable housing and exorbitant rents, but over £200billion worth of liveable property sits unused in England alone.

Over the past six years, the number of long-term empty properties has surged by 24 per cent, prompting housing experts to call for stronger political action.

Homeless charity Crisis says thousands of people stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation could be given a home if politicians took stronger action

Burnley Councils boss has praised its drive to buy up vacant and decaying properties in his borough as a fantastic programme.

A LOCAL authority is to buy two more empty homes as part of its drive to cut the number of vacant and decaying properties in its borough.

Who owns the capital’s tens of thousands of uninhabited properties? And amid an affordable housing crisis, how can we get them back in to use?

More than 5,000 York homes are standing empty - in a housing crisis

A LOCAL authority is to compulsorily purchase five more empty properties

There are almost 700,000 empty homes in England, and charities and lenders say bringing these properties back into use would be a powerful tool in the government’s drive to solve the country’s housing crisis. As Mortgage Strategy went to press it was National Empty Homes Week. The number of homes that were not in use