Action on Empty Homes

Empty Homes England 2019 is available now

Our new annual report on the state of the empty homes problem in England reports the second consecutive annual increase in numbers to over 216,000 and the fastest rise in a decade Read more
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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

Current Projects

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.

National Empty Homes Week 2019 Sept 23rd - 29th

This year the housing crisis has intensified as long-term empty homes numbers rose by nearly 11,000 to over 216,000 focusing public attention on the problem

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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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. Contact your council for local events and information. Read more
Start: 23^rd September, 2019 at 12:00am

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

Published: 24^th April, 2019

Updated: 17^th September, 2019

Author: Chris Bailey

Location: National Event - each local council participating will organise local activity, National news and comment from Action on Empty Homes, London, N1 9JP
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