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In this edition of Action on Empty Homes news, we have some key diary dates for the week beginning 29th April with a new publication launch, an international seminar and upcoming local elections, all raising the profile of the empty homes issue in England.
As always, we welcome your feedback on all stories in this newsletter
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In this edition, we report on our upcoming event ‘Community Action on Empty Homes’ in York, a policy proposal to tackle empty homes in London, and news from Amsterdam about ‘buy to let’.
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Join us in York on May 2nd for our Community Action on Empty Homes event and report launch. You can find details here
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Community action on empty homes
Using empty homes to regenerate communities
Thursday 2nd May 2019: York
Action on Empty Homes is holding a free event for all those interested in taking action on empty homes.
At this event we will launch the final report from our 3-year study of community- based approaches to bringing empty homes into use
Brighid Carey
Project Manager from Action on Empty Homes
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Chris Bailey, Action on Empty Homes campaign manager writes:
Nationally we now have over 216,000 long-term empty homes in England at a time of national housing crisis and the numbers of empties are rising at the fastest rate in a decade.
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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
