Action on Empty Homes

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Action on Empty Homes wants to work with all those who aim to tackle the problem of empty homes across England. Whether you want to become a local contact, volunteer in the national office, or invite a speaker to your community group, please get in touch! Read more

We are focused on bringing the 216,000 long-term empty homes in England back into use for people with housing needs

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We rely on support from individuals and grant funders. Want to support us? Then click the donate box at the top of the page.

We are developing a toolkit for community-led empty homes projects and working on tackling wealth investor ‘buy to leave’ in London. We are also building a national coalition to call for government investment in empty homes.

Consultancy and Training

Our expertise can help local authorities and community groups find solutions to empty homes in local communities.

Our impact

100	100 local authorities take part in Empty Homes Week
9,000	Our campaign for the Government to fund schemes to bring empty homes into use was adopted. Between 2012 and 2015 over 9,000 new homes were created. We need this re-started
200%	Council Tax can now be doubled on homes left two years empty. We campaigned against discounts for empty homes and support councils implementing new premiums

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Latest events

Empty Homes - Community Solutions: International Perspectives

On Tuesday 30 April the University of Birmingham’s Housing and Communities Research Network hosted experts from Spain, Japan and England Read more
Start: 30^th April, 2019 at 1:30pm

End: 24^th April, 2019 at 4:30pm

Published: 24^th April, 2019

Updated: 16^th May, 2019

Author: Chris Bailey

Location: The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
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Empty Homes Week 2019

Empty Homes Week 2019 will take place from the 23rd September 2019 until the 29th September 2019. In 2018 over 100 councils took part in National Empty Homes Week. Read more
Start: 23^rd September, 2019 at 12:00am

End: 29^th September, 2019 at 11:45pm

Published: 24^th April, 2019

Updated: 25^th April, 2019

Author: Chris Bailey

Location: 200A Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JP
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Latest stories

Using empty homes to regenerate communities - our report looks at how

Brighid Carey shows how affordable housing can be delivered from empty homes through collaboration with communities Read more
Empty homes and England’s housing crisis: Solutions that work, action that helps

216,000 reasons for action and rising Read more
Members of Parliament agree that more needs to be done about empty homes

Chris Bailey reports that Members of Parliament want Government to take action on empty homes and draws attention to ComRes polling on empty homes and the housing crisis Read more

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