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…
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.
...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…
Landaid, the property industry charity, is offering £1million in grant to support organisations bringing empty homes back into use for supported accommodation for young people. The organisation states: We are inviting applications from organisations with…
This is a Written Answer to a question asked by one of the Kent MPs, who is aware of the achievements of the Kent No Use Empty Initiative. The government's lack of appetite for further empty homes funding has become apparent from a number of sources.
This is a further article in the Rossendale Free Press, which usefully lists previous stories at the end. However, we will need to wait for the final report . Much of what is appearing at the moment comes from a leaked draft of an audit report and we will…
The Lancashire Telegraph provides some details from a leaked report about the difficulties faced by the £5M+ Rossendale empty homes scheme which apparently implicates the previous Chief Executive in poor management and oversight of the project. The story is…
Unsecured, interest-free loans of up to £5000 made available to owners of empty homes (subject to credit rating). Also reported on the Leeds City Council website at http://news.leeds.gov.uk/interest-free-loans-available-to-get-empty-homes-back-into-use
There is a short section on the over-hyped buy-to-leave phenomenon. Otherwise, the graph plotting 20-year international real house-price indexes is an eye-opener.
A heart-warming tale of an estate agent (or letting agent?) using creative options to let 20 empty homes to ex-Service personnel. The agent posted on Facebook and has had 64k+ shares: https://www.facebook.com/paul.banning.96/posts/1030479710336530?pnref=story
