The agenda for the joint EH/EHN conference on May 23rd in London is moving towards its final shape.
the HCA have confirmed they'll launch their Empty Homes Toolkit there.
high-profile speakers for the final panel session will be confirmed shortly.
we've had to rejig the afternoon sessions to accommodate the panel: please check the programme attached to the event listing for the latest running order
The biggest empty homes conference ever is now planned for London on May 23rd. For the first time, the Empty...
It would have been a major surprise, given recent government press releases, if the New Homes Bonus had not gone...
We were pleased to receive a warm response from government minister Andrew Stunell following the letter we sent to him...
The Empty Homes Network has now made most of its Information Library free to guests. That means you will no longer need to log in to access the content. This is part of our move to integrate our materials with those that will be provided as part of the HCA Empty Homes Toolkit, which is currently under development.
Not all documents will be freely accessible: those produced by the Network itself at our own expense (eg our Briefing papers, Local News Summaries and Practitioner Guides) will continue to require some form of paying membership. What we hope to do is...
About 10 days ago we followed up the letter we wrote to Grant Shapps in November about the £100Million captial...
The Guardian newspaper has published an interesting report about self-help housing, pointing out its usefulness and its relevance for the...
In an announcement by Grant Shapps, the government is now actively floating its plans to help communities acquire surplus publicly-owned...
This is the final version of our consultation response (click link to access it) to the proposed amendments to the...
This is a further revision of our consultation response (click link to access it) to the proposed amendments to the...
We've now published the third and probably final draft of our response to the informal consultation (click link to view) on the proposals to change the EDMO legislation, There have been some significant changes since the last version.
Proposals around rent levels and costs of storing furniture have been dropped in the light of further discussions within EHN about what the current legislation actually says.
Whilst we are still opposing the extension of the qualifying period to two years, we are attempting to make the best of a bad job by suggesting the best way to do it. The most...
You might be interested to know how other organisations have responded to the New Homes Bonus proposals. Alll are broadly...
We have now produced a substantially revised response to the CLG proposals to change the EDMO legislation. The revised response...
There was a surprise story featuring Andrew Stunell released on the CLG website at some point on Monday 10th January,...
