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Huntingdon empties in spotlight
The Lib-Dem activism around empty homes is highlighted by this news story from Huntingdon DC. See the Empty Homes Network recent news story for more background.
How does London family home end up empty? - Guardian story
A story of slow-moving individuals and slow-moving bureaucracies with some interesting historical background.
Most empty homes are in the north, so let's end this London focus - Helen Williams
Helen Williams injects some sanity into the empty homes debate
Burnley boosts empty homes effort with new project assistant
Liverpool £1 houses - Mail Online coverage
Gwynedd offers £20,000 grant to bring empties back into use
Watford: Empty homes cited in mayoral contest
Kent No Use Empty makes finalist in UK Housing Awards
Kent No Use Empty initiative makes the list of finalists in the Regeneration category of the Inside Housing UK Housing Awards.
'No plans to change how EDMOs operate' - Lord Bourne
NI Empty Homes Unit 'scaled back to the point of non-existence'
Apparently the unit originally had 3 full-time staff and now has 1 person 1 day a week. Our contacts in Northern Ireland have never indicated to us that there has ever been anything like an effective strategy there so we are not sure what the Unit was doing…
Selby's 'ambitious plan to bring empty homes back into use'
Pathfinder backlash stories continue to emerge - Salford Star
Aisha Iqbal: Greed is the real cause of Leeds’s empty homes crisis