CTB statistics 2015
The figures are still provisional - final figures are released normally in February, as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement 2016-17.
Around the web
Housing and Planning Bill: Committee discussion of CPOs and empty homes
The part of the debate where CPOs are discussed in relation to empty homes starts at column 617: or just search for "empty".
Empty Homes Week: A funder’s perspective on empty properties
Lorna Mackie, from the Nationwide Foundation, gives a funder's view of the good work that can be done by community housing groups, based in part on the Foundation's own experience with two separate rounds of grant funding.
Empty Homes Week - Commmunity Campus blog post
The final Empty Homes Week blog post from the 24dash.com housing website.
Empty Homes Week - Hull's five secrets to success
Liz Jamil describes some features of Hull's award-winning empty homes partnership.
Empty Homes Week - a Reflection - Helen Williams
Kent No Use Empty 10th Anniversary Celebration - press release
Including pictures of the cake! And a new video.
BBC story highlights empty homes issues
A quick tour of the empty homes issue around England, with examples of different types of intervention and different problems - buy-to-leave, Islington's new planning regime, CPO, EDMO, community housing groups and more.
Bedroom tax as a cause of homes standing empty - Liverpool HA acts
The effect of the bedroom tax on lettings of social housing has occasionally surfaced. This story provides evidence that in some housing markets the effect is real.
Liverpool £1 house scheme - Garrick Street story
The tanker is slowly turning in the direction of homesteading, five years after the HMII was abandoned.
Big Issue feature article on empty homes
Big Issue launches Fill 'em Up campaign
This is primarily a lobbying campaign, although the Big Issue is also involved in financing community-led empty homes projects in London following a deal with the Mayor. The key areas that BI wants to promote are:More support and funding for community-led…
Houses to Homes outcomes - BBC news report
This report cites the views of the Lib Dems (who originally introduced Houses to Homes) as well as the current Welsh Government. As is so often the case there is a s dispute about the significance of the figures.
Giggs and Neville help homeless
...for a while, anyway. Giggsy-wiggsy shows another side to his nature. The question pre-occupying the soccer-loving empty homes practitioner is whether Robbie Fowler will now rise to the Manchester challenge by providing access to properties from his…