From Monday the 23rd November to Friday 27th November is the National Week of Action on Empty Homes. The Empty Homes Agency (EHA) has reported that one in twenty properties has been unoccupied for over 6 months. That means that the number of empty properties has hit a record on one million. At the point of last year’s week of action the figure stood at about 760,000.
The Empty Homes Agency “is an independent campaigning charity, which exists to highlight the waste of empty property in England and works with others to devise and promote sustainable solutions to bring empty property back into use.” …read more
Squatting on the rise
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010If ever there was an argument for the introduction of a proper Land Value Tax (LVT) it is this.
The Independent reports that according to the Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) the number of squatters has increased from 9,500 in 1995, to 15,000 in 2003 and now up to 22,000. …read more
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