empty homes – Hackney Citizen

Coronavirus: ‘Buy up empty homes to ease overcrowding’, Hackney MP tells government

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 March 2020 at 21:20

Meg Hillier

Meg Hillier and fellow MP Karen Buck urge Whitehall to ‘relieve pressure on overstretched housing sector’

Town Hall to hike up council tax on empty homes in ‘carrot and stick’ approach

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 2 March 2020 at 16:22

Empty home owners asked to become landlords for homeless families as premiums set to rise to 200% from April

Hackney has more than 1,000 empty homes – amid ‘urgent’ housing crisis

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 15:06

Borough has tenth highest number of homeless people in the UK, according to leading charity Shelter