BUILDING AN EMPTY PROPERTIES REGISTER

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What is an empty properties register?

• An organised list of all the properties that currently remain empty

• A survey of housing assets within an identified area

• Such as a local council electorate, local catchment area, or a local conurbation

• An empty properties register can be a national database

Why produce an empty properties register?

• To capture evidence of empty properties

• To manifest a data pool which can serve further research

• To help generate an honest public discussion about housing and homelessness

• To provide coherent information related to housing as a social necessity

• To illuminate the gross mismanagement of local housing stock

• To assist in redressing the social diseases of homelessness and poverty

What is an empty properties register used for?

• To facilitate free public access to an uncensored list of empty properties

• To manage existing housing stock effectively and efficiently

• To make both raw data and coherent analysis available to the public

• To maintain real time data on property activity at the street level

• To collate relevant data that is related to housing rather than property speculation

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AN EMPTY PROPERTIES REGISTER IS AN ORGANISED LIST OF ALL PROPERTIES THAT CURRENTLY REMAIN EMPTY.

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Who should maintain an empty properties register?

• In an ideal world, the best organisation to manage an empty properties register is likely to be the local council. In a world that is less than ideal, it is up to ordinary people to compile and maintain an empty properties register.

What is an empty properties register likely to reveal?

• Rampant mismanagement of local housing stock

• Empty properties in abundance

• A plague of financial speculation within the housing sector

• A contestation between different mindsets and different classes

• A longstanding government preference for wild west property speculation

• A lack of moral cohesion within our society

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EMPTY, EVERYWHERE

Photo | Keith Salter

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VIEW THE EMPTY PROPERTIES REGISTER

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everyone needs a place to call home

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