Action on Empty Homes

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
Day of Action

On Saturday April 17th 2021 Action on Empty Homes and Homes For All held a day of action to highlight the blight and waste of half a million empty homes across England - supporters ranged from Big Issue founder Lord Bird to Unite the Union (London and Eastern Region), Acorn Leeds, Greater Manchester Housing Action and Streets Kitchen. Read more
Metro features powerful examination of rising empty homes numbers as housing crisis and pandemic worsen

National daily Metro put rising numbers of wasted empty homes in the context of the wider housing crisis and the plight of those at the sharp end. The paper spoke to us about how empties and homelessness are both rising. Read more
Public Meeting Playback Now Available: Empty Homes in the Alpha City

What is happening to London's housing supply and what can we do about it? With Speakers: Rowland Atkinson, Rex McKenzie, Loretta Lees View it all on YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/93Mh6J9HHTg Read more

Action on Empty Homes focus on the 268,385 long-term empty homes in England and bringing them back into use for people in need of homes

Current Projects

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

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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Latest events

Public Meeting Playback Now Available: Empty Homes in the Alpha City

What is happening to London's housing supply and what can we do about it? With Speakers: Rowland Atkinson, Rex McKenzie, Loretta Lees View it all on YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/93Mh6J9HHTg Read more
Start: 21^st July, 2020 at 7:00pm

End: 21^st July, 2020 at 8:30pm

Published: 13^th July, 2020

Updated: 29^th July, 2020

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Location: Online event - live streaming on YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/93Mh6J9HHTg or the Action on Empty Homes Facebook page
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200%

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