Homes From Empty Homes

Empty Homes sets out to demonstrate the effectiveness of homesteading as a means of bringing empty homes back into use after receiving government funding.

Empty Homes will use £91,000 to help bring 10 homes in Stoke that had been scheduled for demolition back into use through a homesteading scheme.

Chief executive David Ireland, said: ‘This is a terrace of homes that was going to be demolished [by the council] but they’re going to be transferred so a housing association owns 50 per cent and the other 50 per cent will be sold at a reduced amount for people to renovate.’

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Independent charity Empty Homes is delighted to announce the formation of the National Empty Homes Loans Fund. The fund that will be launched later in the year will offer low interest loans to owners of empty homes to help them bring them into use as affordable housing.

The loans fund was one of the demands of Channel 4′s “Great British Property Scandal” campaign led by architect and independent Empty Homes Adviser George Clarke. Government empty homes loans funds have already been announced in Scotland and Wales and this fund will operate [...]