{"id":85496,"date":"2026-02-25T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85496"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:37:18","slug":"england-use-empty-homes-to-combat-homelessness-government-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/england-use-empty-homes-to-combat-homelessness-government-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"England: Use empty homes to combat homelessness, government urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.QyZbhmGLwBaBT2j390fqugHaEK?w=325&amp;h=183&amp;c=7&amp;r=0&amp;o=7&amp;dpr=1.5&amp;pid=1.7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for empty homes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of leading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/housing-homes-labour-unaffordable-house-buying-mortgage-b2829833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">housing sector<\/a>\u00a0organisations has called on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">government<\/a>\u00a0to bring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">England<\/a>\u2019s hundreds of thousands of empty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">homes<\/a> back into use \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/use-empty-homes-to-combat-homelessness-government-urged\/ar-AA1WYB4t?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699eac7c4c08478baecee47413a1f484&amp;ei=40\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A group of leading\u00a0housing sector\u00a0organisations has called on the\u00a0government\u00a0to bring\u00a0England\u2019s hundreds of thousands of empty\u00a0homes back into use \u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Homeless-Liverpool.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85497,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496\/revisions\/85497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}