Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes

We are a national campaigning charity working to bring empty homes back into use as affordable housing for people who need it.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

Our major new report with @qurbanist of @sheffielduni and @sse_data recommends policy changes to boost rural and coastal housing access. Inc proposals on '2nd homes', Airbnb licensing, planning, social housing, local tax retention & responsible lending: https://t.co/5hxtEoxqQr

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

“Arconic, whose flammable cladding encased the tower, has done more to compensate its shareholders than the survivors and the bereaved”.

Our report on corporate accountability after Grenfell — Unpunished and Undeterred — covered in @prospect_uk

https://t.co/yNViYtkWqa

[SHAC @SHAC_Action]

SHAC Article: I Thought I Was Just Checking My Service Charges

https://t.co/K1wDddc22J

Olivia started out checking figures on a service charge letters and ended up building tenant and resident power across her neighbourhood.

It was a journey she never expected to take, but her experience will be familiar to many.

#EndServiceChargeAbuse

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Residents on a south London estate face eviction and rent hikes, as a small property firm who purchased the homes from a housing associations looks to get a return

Dig into the story and a cautionary tale about who housing policy now serves emerges:

https://t.co/TKxWt58yam

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

@TomWright165389 It doesn't- especially when used non-residentially as whole home all-year Airbnbs, wealth storage or additional 'homes' for those with several in various jurisdictions. Lux tower development is expensive to build and run, inflates land values, pricing out affordable homes we need

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

🚨 Million pound mansions sit empty in London, and in some cases for years! 🇬🇧💷

Billionaires’ Row London📍

[Rainbowland @rainbowland1979]

@emptyhomes @Real_HFLambeth @Kwajotweneboa Say that to @AngelaRayner

[Tracy Kohl @tracytrumpet]

@emptyhomes @johnbirdswords @crisis_uk @Shelter You should try to contact @andyburnham he has worked extensively in Manchester to end rough sleeper. It’s so high on his agenda with Rev Ian Rutherford. He wants to upscale what they did in Manchester to a National level

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

@LostInSW19 Indeed, value-engineered failure.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Remember: The "housing shortage" is a myth created by the housebuilding lobby.

It's a money shortage. There's plenty of property available, it's just not affordable.

Building more homes doesn't bring prices down.

Reducing lending multiples and lengths does.

[Rose Grayston @rosegrayston]

If we want denser housing around stations and in cities, a functioning apartment market matters.

A generation watching friends become trapped by service charges and toxic leases isn’t much of an advertisement for flat ownership.

Me for @theipaper

https://t.co/KrBcQmEGWh

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It rained....

And as predicted on @LBC with @HenryRiley1 not 48 hours ago.

Anything in brown is sewage being dumping into the environment right now, in real time, anything in red is sewage dumped over the last 24 hours.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

For too long we've kept building #TheWrongHousing at the wrong price but the flats causing the most problems arent period conversions like those pictured, they're in hi-rise towers that are expensive to build and run in all senses: high carbon impact and high living costs.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

Time to start 'ending homelessness with homes' - peak homelessness in conjunction with peak levels of long-term empty homes is the starkest illustration of what's wrong with our housing system possible letting this bankrupt councils is madness @johnbirdswords @crisis_uk @Shelter

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

@LostInSW19 Indeed, value-engineered failure.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

For too long we've kept building #TheWrongHousing at the wrong price but the flats causing the most problems arent period conversions like those pictured, they're in hi-rise towers that are expensive to build and run in all senses: high carbon impact and high living costs.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

The media always catch up eventually, but it's always too late for their readers, who would have benefited from knowing sooner.

The data I could see 3 or 4 years ago was available to all media publications, but almost no one wanted to publish the story of falling house prices.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

The roots of Britain’s housing crisis is the Oligopoly of five big developers, private companies sat on ten years worth of land (at the rate they build) - drip feeding new homes into the market to keep prices where they want them. It’s not for nothing that these guys paid the Competitions and Markets Authority £100m to close down an investigation into price fixing. Private companies should not be responsible for vital national infrastructure, like housebuilding - their interests and the interests of the country are always at odds. This is especially bad in a monopoly (power, water and gas grids) as well as Oligopoly (small handful of dominant players). The answer is to apply local authority rates to land that has planning permission - whether it’s been built on or not. Which is akin to a land value tax that gets increasingly suggested. Remove the ability to land bank at zero cost.

https://t.co/07ZB2edgeS

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

“Arconic paid $74m to its shareholders, compared with $43m in compensation to victims & survivors. That means $31m more was paid to shareholders.”

Our new report — Unpunished & Undeterred: Corporate Accountability After Grenfell — covered by @itvnews 👇
https://t.co/GuX844hylY

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

“You basically want the people who cause the mess to pay to clean it up, the people who profit from selling these products and that hasn’t happened. We’ve bailed them out essentially, as taxpayers”

Peter Apps on the findings of our new report on ITV news.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

@tracytrumpet @johnbirdswords @crisis_uk @Shelter @andyburnham Lets hope so - he's now in a position to make a national difference and the biggest rises in long-term empty homes are in the places with the worst homelessness - London up 138% in a decade, SE up 93% - NW has recently led way on new empty homes programmes @MetroMayorSteve

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

@tracytrumpet @johnbirdswords @crisis_uk @Shelter @andyburnham Lets hope so - he's now in a position to make a national difference and the biggest rises in long-term empty homes are in the places with the worst homelessness - London up 138% in a decade, SE up 93% - NW has recently led way on new empty homes programmes @MetroMayorSteve

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

Time to start 'ending homelessness with homes' - peak homelessness in conjunction with peak levels of long-term empty homes is the starkest illustration of what's wrong with our housing system possible letting this bankrupt councils is madness @johnbirdswords @crisis_uk @Shelter

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Why is this happening? The leading cause is the inability of these families to afford private rent in their local area.

Human cost of homelessness, particularly for kids, is obviously enormous. The bill for the taxpayer is eye-watering too...