Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes
@emptyhomes
We are a national campaigning charity working to bring empty homes back into use as affordable housing for people who need it.
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Looking forward to this in a few weeks with Thirza Asanga-Rae, Kate Bradley, Saskia O'Hara and John Nicholson.
Greater Manchester Tenants Union Public Interest Law Centre Greater Manchester Law Centre Repeater Books
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The Government has plans to criminalise rough sleeping in its Criminal Justice Bill.
This would mean that anyone who has become homeless and is sleeping on the streets could be fined up to £2,500 or even jailed.
Vicky Spratt details how as many as 40 Tory MPs may rebel
The Conservatives are all over the place on ECHR.
Today, they attack ECHR for ‘woke’ climate change ruling.
Tomorrow, they will be invoking ECHR to protect greedy rent-seekers in leasehold housing.
Make your minds up! bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
Rents are not natural forces. They cannot swell or spike on their own. If they rise, it’s because landlords and lettings agents have put them up. This week’s newsletter i newspaper is all about the enormous problem of historically high private rents… inews.co.uk/news/high-rent…
✨💚EMMALUNA💚✨ We'd like to see this across England - 1 million empty homes: 261,000 long-term empty, plus another 220,000 council tax exempt: homes of the deceased alone 137,000 of these-we'd like to see investment and incentives to return these to use as social housing twitter.com/emptyhomes/sta…
At last …. Such an obvious & simple idea without a dodgy property developer in sight.
Been suggesting this for over a decade but could never get anyone to listen.
So happy to hear this community project is just getting on with it. Respect.
What you think Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes ??
Decent Affordable Rental Homes from #emptyhomes in Grimsby by East Marsh United we need more of this across England: its time for new funds and backing from @dluhc to #BuyTheSupply and retrofit as social homes; to save public money and transform lives. 1million empties is too many
Only city-wide rent controls can end the cycle of insecurity trapping London's 3 million renters.
Labour needs to commit to devolve power over rents to the Mayor of London.
📢 Read what we had to say in The Standard: standard.co.uk/homesandproper…
Government is fiddling while our housing crisis burns - recent tax changes for second homes and holiday lets are 'too little, too late from an administration that has presided over the development of the worst housing crisis since World War II' more at:
actiononemptyhomes.org/news/too-littl…
Profit before People the big developers way... hope that you are paying attention Matthew Pennycook MP and Labour Housing Group
#RoyalDocks - a former mayor's legacy, Boris Johnson's multi-billion Chinese fever dream, created along with Deputy Mayor Richard Blakeway and Eddie Lister, not exactly delivering on its promises ...lest we forget
#TheWrongHousing and the wrong development
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'1 in 4 private renters is in fuel poverty.. 55% of private rented homes have an energy efficiency rating of band D or BELOW..
The health impacts of poor housing are estimated to cost the NHS £1.1bn per year'
UK Govt response? Cancel minimum EPC C for the PRS
#RetrofitChallenge
#FillEmptyHomes
Peabody Peabody New Homes HousingRebellion Labour Campaign For Council Housing Action for Fire Safety Justice Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes Shelter ACORN the union RentersRightsLondon London Renters Union Estate Watch DemolitionWatchLdn💙 DefendCouncilHousing
Rashid Nix KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner Joe Penny Paul Watt Mayor of London
Excellent piece from Glen Keogh on the human realities of rough sleeping, the real solutions, and the madness of criminalising people thetimes.co.uk/article/a-fine…
