The HCA has now announced the successor scheme to Temporary Social Housing Grant, for homes leased by Registered Providers for up to 30 years. This will be of great importance to short-life housing organisations, councils and housing associations who are…
The Empty Homes Network has released its Briefing on the £100million allocated to empty homes within the affordable housing budget in the Comprehensive Spending Review. This is available to all-comers for the time being (though we expect to restrict access…
We're really pleased to announce that Andrew Stunell MP, OBE has confirmed that he is able to speak at the Home Again conference on May 23rd in London. As Under-Secretary of State at CLG, Andrew is master-minding the coalition government's drive to…
The biggest empty homes conference ever is now planned for London on May 23rd. For the first time, the Empty Homes Network has teamed up with the charity Empty Homes to mount a joint conference that covers the spectrum of empty homes work. And delegate rates…
It would have been a major surprise, given recent government press releases, if the New Homes Bonus had not gone ahead more or less as planned. And that is exactly what has happened. The final scheme design announced today is, as far as we can see, identical…
We were pleased to receive a warm response from government minister Andrew Stunell following the letter we sent to him in January containing our practical suggestions for the distribution of the £100M for empty homes. (You can read Andrew Stunell's…
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…
About 10 days ago we followed up the letter we wrote to Grant Shapps in November about the £100Million captial for empty homes with a further one to Andrew Stunell where we offered more detailed proposals about how the money should be distributed. We accepted…
The Guardian newspaper has published an interesting report about self-help housing, pointing out its usefulness and its relevance for the "Big Society". It features some interesting schemes and self-help organisations and makes the point that more…
In an announcement by Grant Shapps, the government is now actively floating its plans to help communities acquire surplus publicly-owned land and buildings. The story can be found here. As a start, the HCA surplus property portfoliio has been published.…
This is the final version of our consultation response (click link to access it) to the proposed amendments to the EDMO legislation. This now includes a propoal to review the procedures involved in obtaining an EDMO. It also suggests that local authorities…
This is a further revision of our consultation response (click link to access it) to the proposed amendments to the EDMO legislation. This incorporates a review of the possible problems associated with the word "nuisance" given its often restricted…
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…
You might be interested to know how other organisations have responded to the New Homes Bonus proposals. Alll are broadly in favour of extending them to empty homes with more or less enthusiasm. Click on the links to download the responses from the Chartered…
