Action on Empty Homes

Birmingham Launch of Community Action on Empty Homes Toolkit

Our Community Action on Empty Homes Toolkit supports communities and local authorities to work together and deliver affordable homes from empty homes. We are holding free events for community groups, charities and local authorities to launch the Toolkit: Birmingham: Fazeley Studios, 25th November Read more
Do Barcelona and Amsterdam have the answer to Airbnbification?

Airbnbification -- the process by which short-term Airbnb rentals overtake the housing market - has been linked to the depletion of local housing stocks, increased home prices, gentrification, and exclusionary displacement; the cumulative effects of which can disrupt entire communities and increase precarity among community members. Read more
Sign and share our Call to Action for retrofitting empty homes

Action on Empty Homes have launched a Call to Action for the whole-house retrofitting of empty homes to tackle the climate and housing emergencies. Read more
Community Action on Empty Homes Toolkit

Our new Toolkit is designed to encourage partnerships between local councils and communities to bring empty homes back into use, to meet local housing needs. Read more

Action on Empty Homes focus on the 238,306 long-term empty homes in England and bringing them back into use for people in need of homes

Current Projects

From our new toolkit for community-led empty homes projects to work tackling wealth investor ‘buy to leave’ and the Global Empty Homes Network; and a national coalition calling on Government to invest to save.

Community Action on Empty Homes Toolkit

Our new Toolkit is designed to encourage partnerships between local councils and communities to bring empty homes back into use, to meet local housing needs.

Our impact

120	120 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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Nobody's Home

Our new report on London's housing crisis looks at how wealth investment fuels London's failed development model and locks Londoners out of decent affordable housing

Latest events

Cities, mobile capital and housing vacancy: Online Event

Cities, mobile capital and housing vacancy - Global Empty Homes Network event: Playback of discussion now available Read more
Start: 9^th September, 2021 at 12:00pm

End: 9^th September, 2021 at 1:15pm

Published: 11^th June, 2021

Updated: 26^th October, 2021

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Location: Global Event - Attendees will be sent live ink
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Why is vacancy and under-utilisation of housing growing in Greater Manchester when the region faces a housing crisis?

Empty homes numbers are growing across Greater Manchester. In the City 'second home' numbers rose tenfold in a decade. Why is this happening at the time of an acute housing crisis ? Chris Bailey - Action on Empty Homes author of 'Empty Homes in England'; Dr. Richard Goulding, co-author of ‘From Homes to Assets Housing financialisation in Greater Manchester'; Dr. Luke Yates, author of ‘The Airbnb 'movement' for deregulation’ Read more
Start: 21^st October, 2021 at 10:00am

End: 21^st October, 2021 at 12:00pm

Published: 11^th July, 2021

Updated: 26^th October, 2021

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Location: Online
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Climate crisis, the global property bubble and vacant homes – online event: PLAYBACK NOW AVAILABLE

Global Empty Homes Network online event on the links between empty homes and the climate crisis during the COP26 climate conference. ‘Climate crisis, the global property bubble and vacant homes’ was streamed live on Monday 8 November. PLAYBACK NOW AVAILABLE Read more
Start: 8^th November, 2021 at 4:00pm

End: 8^th November, 2021 at 5:00pm

Published: 29^th October, 2021

Updated: 15^th November, 2021

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Latest stories

No Address? No Access To Services...

Chris Bailey explains how a ProxyAddress can help people facing homelessness and our campaign to turn proxy addresses into real addresses Read more
Morning Lane People's Space and the campaign for housing to meet local needs in Hackney

Guest Blog: Morning Lane People’s Space "Our priority is to ensure that any development meets local needs and is based on meaningful consultation. In terms of housing that means building council properties that can provide secure affordable homes" Read more
Estimating ‘buy to leave’ in Kensington & Chelsea

Data from the latest Council Taxbase reveals Kensington & Chelsea has the highest proportion of long-term empty homes in London. Furthermore, 10% of the borough's homes are classed as 'second homes'. Chujan Sivathasan uses data from Jonathan Bourne at UCL and draws on Dr Rex Atkinson's work on 'Anchoring Wealth: The grounded impact of international wealth chains on housing markets in London' Read more

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200%

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