Action on Empty Homes

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
Massive 20% rise in empty homes up over 42,000 to 268,385 while 100,000 families are stuck in Temporary Accommodation

Government data released today shows a massive year on year rise of over 42,000 to a total of 268,385 long-term empty homes in England, as nearly 100,000 families languish in temporary accommodation. This is the biggest rise since current records began. Read more
Can New Zealand’s new Labour Government turn round decades of housing failure?

Our research volunteer Bill Golden asks whether Jacinda Ardern's landslide victory on the back of tackling the pandemic and domestic terrorism stands her in good stead to deal with New Zealand's knottiest public policy challenge - its longstanding housing crisis. Read more
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

We are focused on bringing the 226,000 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.

Pretty Vacant

Our new report on why the next 500 high-rise towers in London won't end the capitals's housing crisis. And how they will make it worse.

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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Empty Homes Week 2020 Moves to 2021

Empty Homes Week is an annual event focused on local action to bring empty homes into use - normally scheduled in late September. The continuing impact of Corona virus on local councils makes it is difficult to organise a meaningful national event under these circumstances. Empty Homes Week has therefore been rescheduled to 15th to 21st February 2021. The week will feature the launch of a new Empty Homes in England report analysing national, regional and local trends. Read more
Start: 15^th February, 2021 at 12:00am

End: 21^st February, 2021 at 11:45pm

Published: 10^th September, 2020

Updated: 9^th December, 2020

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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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Latest stories

Why Nigeria's millions of empty homes count

In Nigeria ..“newly built luxury dwellings are springing up throughout cities made possible often through forced eviction of poor communities. These units do not fulfil any housing need, with many remaining vacant as vehicles for money laundering or investment.” Leilani Farha, September 2019, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Adequate Housing Read more
Will the last investor leaving Southwark please turn out the lights.. until Airbnb is back in business

New Government data shows how the Coronavirus pandemic shines a light on how we keep on building housing which doesn't house anyone: so homelessness rises, affordability declines and home ownership drops. Southwark is the canary in this particular coalmine. Read more
Can New Zealand’s new Labour Government turn round decades of housing failure?

Our research volunteer Bill Golden asks whether Jacinda Ardern's landslide victory on the back of tackling the pandemic and domestic terrorism stands her in good stead to deal with New Zealand's knottiest public policy challenge - its longstanding housing crisis. Read more

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9,000

200%

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