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In this edition of your Action on Empty Homes news, we have some key diary dates for February, with a new publication from the Coalition for Community Investment, and details of the upcoming broadcast of the new BBC series on empty homes.
As always, we welcome your feedback on all stories in this newsletter.
New Coalition publication to advocate Government investment
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The Huffington Post UK has made a new film on the drive to bring empty homes back into use as the housing crisis deepens. You can watch the film here .
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In this edition you'll find links to full results of ComRes polling of MPs, showing cross-party support for Government to back local councils with investment and new powers
As always we welcome your feedback on all stories in this newsletter
Hope that you all had a good festive break
Full results of polling - MPs views on empty homes published
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Welcome to this year's final festive update from Action on Empty Homes. In this edition we highlight new polling commissioned from ComRes. This shows cross-party support from MPs for Government to back local authorities with more funding and new powers to bring more empty homes back into use.
As always we welcome your feedback on any or all of the stories in this newsletter.
Hope that you all have a good festive period.
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This article was written as a personal opinion piece by Action on Empty Homes’ Campaign Manager, Chris Bailey, for Open Access Government an online European and international public policy magazine. The text is below or you can read it in the latest edition of Open Access Government here:
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New Council Taxbase data shows empty homes numbers jump
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It was a pleasure to meet so many empty homes practitioners at the Empty Homes Network annual conference. For me, it was the first step in developing a new conversation and a stronger relationship between Action on Empty Homes and those whose job it is to ensure as many empty homes are brought back into use as possible.
Policy development
At Action on Empty Homes, we know that there is a range of different ideas about how national policy might be developed to help practitioners bring more empty homes back into use.
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Welcome to our latest newsletter - as you'll see we have relaunched with a new name and renewed focus!
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I was really pleased to be invited to Maidstone to cut the ribbon at the official opening of the Boxley Road development in Maidstone.
This is the kind of Action on Empty Homes we want local authorities to take.
It is a great collaboration between partners on the ground and Kent County Council through their No Use Empty on an invest to save principle.
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BBC TV Empty Homes series to be broadcast this year
Thanks to everyone who got in touch with the production company making the BBC’s new empty homes series. We don’t yet have a start date for the four programme series, but it is promised before Christmas. The working title is attention-grabbing, ‘Britain’s Housing Scandal’ and the BBC media centre tell us that the presenter ‘Matt Allwright is on a journey to seek out the UK’s empty homes and tell their stories.’
