{"id":14391,"date":"2016-12-07T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14391"},"modified":"2016-12-07T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:16:26","slug":"empty-homes-government-should-place-greater-priority-on-tackling-empty-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14391","title":{"rendered":"Empty Homes: Government should place greater priority on tackling empty homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Empty Homes charity has found that 83% of British adults believe the Government should place a higher priority on tackling empty homes, an increase from 78% from two years ago.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The charity also found that 39% say that empty homes are a blight on their local area and 76% believe their local authority should place a higher priority on tackling the issue. It said a popular solution was for the Government to fund either local authorities or charities to buy and repair long-term empty homes to rent or sell to people in housing need.<\/p>\n<p>The charity is calling on the Government to adopt a new empty homes strategy to ensure that more affordable housing can be created from empty properties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptyhomes.com\/assets\/2016-11-28-final-press-release-post-embargo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empty Homes charity has found that 83% of British adults believe the Government should place a higher priority on tackling empty homes, an increase from 78% from two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14411,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions\/14411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}