Latest editorial
Campaigners call for urgent action on one million empty homes
An aerial view of terraced housing in west London
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
HOUSING campaigners are calling for urgent action on the more than one million homes no-one lives in this National Empty Homes Week, which begins on Monday.
The latest government data shows that 479,000 properties in England stood empty in September.
But charity Action on Empty Homes (AEH) is warning that the figure does not represent the “whole story.”
Similar stories
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON