Across England hundreds of local authorities are taking action and we round up some examples of their work - but with 1 million homes without residents and 250,000 long-term empty and not covered by a legitimate exemption, Government needs to restart a national empty homes programme, to create much-needed 'homes from empty homes'. Read more
Introducing our new Director Rebecca Moore and how she sees the empty homes issue. Read more
Brighid Carey updates us on AEH's work to support community-led action on empty homes and the positive reception for our Community Action Toolkit by communities and from politicians across the political spectrum. Read more
Case Study of full-house fabric-first retrofit for heritage almshouse homes in Matlock, Derbyshire Dales for National Empty Homes Week 2022 Showing an approach relevant to a property-type common amongst England's 238,306 empty homes. Read more
On 23 February 2022 Action on Empty Homes hosted our Regulating Airbnb webinar. We invited presenters from Berlin, Barcelona, and Amsterdam – cities which have taken action in the past to mitigate Airbnb’s impact on the private rental market – to explore what strategies might be adopted here in the UK Read more
When Empty Dwelling Management Orders were introduced the powers they offered were curtailed, they are now used less than envisaged and councils are calling for reform Read more
Brighid Carey calls for dedicated funding to support communities to create high quality, well-insulated, affordable homes from long-term empty homes Read more
Frank Gavurin reports on more action on empty homes in Spain as local government in Valencia boosts social housing supply at the expense of Vulture fund Cerberus and the Catalan Government ups its game on expropriations Read more
Frank Gavurin argues that the Balearic Islands may be showing us what a progressive use of existing housing stock looks like Read more
Turning Empty Houses into Homes with Central Bedfordshire Council’s Senior Technical Officer Janice Edmond A look at Local Council Action and Powers in Action or National Empty Homes Week from EDMOs to CPO... Read more
If we want to talk about the housing affordability crisis in global cities, then we can’t avoid talking about corruption and the opacity of ownership as well. Frank Gavurin looks at dark towers and dirty money. Read more
A supporter of our campaign to bring empties back into use has been examining the evidence on his doorstep in Bromley Read more
Why London has to stop building the wrong housing. All you need to know about what is wrong with the development model that locks Londoners out of housing. Read more
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
Data from the latest Council Taxbase reveals Kensington & Chelsea has one of the highest proportions 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
2021 was not a let-down for everyone. For property investors, sky-rocketing house prices created an incredible opportunity for profits. With the suspension of the stamp-duty tax resulting in as much as a 10% rise in house prices one property group went as far as to call 2021 ‘exceptional’. Savvy investors are no longer looking at London, they are going North. Read more