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  • National Empty Homes Week

    National Empty Homes Week

    Every year National Empty Homes Week provides a focus for local initiatives to bring empty homes back into use. Across the country, councils use the Week to promote advice, assistance and enforcement at local level and to showcase the work of empty homes officers.

  • Introducing our new Director, Rebecca Moore

    Introducing our new Director, Rebecca Moore

    Introducing our new Director Rebecca Moore and how she sees the empty homes issue.

  • Tax Haven Money in London Property Report and Key Findings

    Tax Haven Money in London Property Report and Key Findings

    The Wealth Chain Project led by Dr Rex McKenzie, based at Kingston University, investigates the influence of tax haven money on inequality in London today and examines how this undermines confidence in local democracy.

  • Tax Haven Money in London's Real Estate Launch Discussion - Recording available to view

    Tax Haven Money in London's Real Estate Launch Discussion - Recording available to view

    Report Launch: Detailing purchase of London residential property between 1999 and 2022, by owners registered in offshore tax haven jurisdictions. Focusing on estimates of the scale and considering the social and demographic consequences for Londoners.

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  • How do I find the owner of an abandoned property?

    Action on Empty Homes does not have the capacity to assist individuals or property developers in locating the owners of individual empty properties, but we can access expert advice for you and there are a number of ways in which the owner may be located, these are listed here:

  • Facts and figures

    Government publish data on vacant dwellings for each local authority and for England as a whole. Action on Empty Homes publishes the most authoritative guide to empty homes data and each year we analyse the official data on long-term empty homes, producing the only comprehensive analysis of this data.

  • In Empty Homes Week 2022 we call for action and investment

    In Empty Homes Week 2022 we call for action and investment

    In Empty Homes Week 2022 we explain the areas of policy that fail our homeless and families in need of genuinely affordable housing. Empty homes have two roles in this they can house the homeless and they can show us where housing policy fails by building 'The Wrong Housing' to end the Housing Crisis

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

    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.

  • Our Pretty Vacant Manchester report asks is Manchester Building 'The Wrong Housing'

    Our Pretty Vacant Manchester report asks is Manchester Building 'The Wrong Housing'

    Action on Empty Homes new report supported by the Evan Cornish Foundation reports on work to examine vacancy levels and housing policy in Manchester and asks questions about the City's 'hidden empties', its persistently high level of so-called 'second homes' and the impact of Airbnb on access to housing.

  • Ask your local candidates to Sign up to the Campaign Against Empty Homes Local Election Manifesto

    Ask your local candidates to Sign up to the Campaign Against Empty Homes Local Election Manifesto

    The Campaign Against Empty Homes is supported by Action on Empty Homes The Big Issue Disabled People Against Cuts Fuel Poverty Action The Green Party Homes for All Labour Homelessness Campaign London Renters’ Rights Peace & Justice Project Radical Housing Network Social Housing Action Campaign Southwark Defend Council Housing Streets Kitchen Street Storage Unite Community London and South East Unite the Union London and Eastern Region

  • Future proofing: Use Empty Homes Week 2022 to explore retrofitting while renovating

    Future proofing: Use Empty Homes Week 2022 to explore retrofitting while renovating

    Empty Homes Week 2022 takes place from Monday February 28th to Sunday March 6th. Brighid Carey, AEH Consultancy and Projects Manager says we should all use the focus it offers to explore retrofitting while renovating and bringing empty homes back into use

  • Pretty Vacant: Our latest report on London's housing crisis

    Pretty Vacant: Our latest report on London's housing crisis

    New report reveals why the next 500 high rise towers won’t end London’s housing crisis and the Government action needed.

  • Global Empty Homes Network Launches in UK, USA and Australia with call for worldwide housing protections during Covid Crisis

    Global Empty Homes Network Launches in UK, USA and Australia with call for worldwide housing protections during Covid Crisis

    Action on Empty Homes, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Prosper Australia, announce launch of the Global Empty Homes Network (GEHN). The three organizations, based in the UK, the US, and Australia will focus particularly on the mismatch between growing empty homes numbers and increasing housing need.

  • News coverage highlights second homes numbers rising as thousands flip to business rates

    News coverage highlights second homes numbers rising as thousands flip to business rates

    Recent media coverage focused on so-called 'second homes' flipping to business rates to avoid paying council tax and how this adds to local housing pressures as homes disappear from residential supply

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