{"id":1538,"date":"2010-07-21T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-07-21T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:59:06","slug":"hca-online-debate-on-empty-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"HCA: Online debate on empty homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>HCA is holding an online debate to explore new ways to help bring more private sector homes back into use.<\/div>\n<p>Affordability issues, exacerbated by the current economic conditions have placed greater emphasis on the need to tackle empty homes. Currently, there are 1.8 million households on the social housing waiting list and over 762,000 empty homes, around half of which have been empty for more than six months.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is running until 30 July to address key challenges that local authorities face tackling empty homes, highlight innovative practice and generate practical solutions to help the sector bring more empty homes back into use. A series of films have been produced to spark debate and provide the latest thinking from industry experts including:<\/p>\n<p>* Jon Hough \u2013 Principal Housing Strategy Officer, Leeds City Council<br \/>\n* David Ireland \u2013 CEO, Empty Homes (EH)<br \/>\n* Sir Bob Kerslake \u2013 CEO, HCA<br \/>\n* Katharine Hibbert \u2013 Ex-squatter and author of Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society<br \/>\n* Steve Hoey \u2013 Co-ordinator, Canopy Housing<br \/>\n* Andrew Wells \u2013 Estate Agent, Allsop<br \/>\n* Ceri Barraclough \u2013 Marketing Sales Executive, Camelot Property<\/p>\n<p>Homes and Communities:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/skills.homesandcommunities.co.uk\/node\/867\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCA is holding an online debate to explore new ways to help bring more private sector homes back into use. Affordability issues, exacerbated by the current economic conditions have placed greater emphasis on the need to tackle empty homes. Currently, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","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\/1538","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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}