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Post-Covid action urged to curb number of Scotland s empty homes

Six-figure Angus empty homes fund launched to help bring properties back into use

Six-figure Angus empty homes fund launched to help bring properties back into use © D C Thomson & Co Ltd Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A £100,000 cash carrot is being dangled in front of Angus property owners to bring empty homes up to scratch. The area is thought to have around 1,200 of Scotland’s 47,000 long-term empty properties. Housing chiefs say their return to use could help meet the area’s high demand for affordable housing.

Restoring empty homes regenerates communities - Murdo Macleod

Submitting. As a former builder turned Empty Homes Officer, I realised that the key to encouraging people to restore empty homes was to make it affordable. The owners I was working with were generally people who had inherited run-down properties they couldn’t afford to restore, and families on limited incomes who were drawn to the isles for quality of life and had bought an empty home that needed renovation. Working with contractors and suppliers, I developed a discount programme with these companies for owners of empty homes which has been very successful. When combined with the fiscal benefits and incentives supported by the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, such as the VAT discount, this programme brought the prospect of bringing back empty homes within reach for many individuals and families.

Man working two jobs pleading for change to fill empty Dundee homes

Updated: December 11, 2020, 5:48 pm © Paul Reid Grant and Claire Gordon are currently crammed into a three bedroom house in Dundee with six children. With more than 1,000 homes currently lying empty across Dundee, a father working 70 hours a week to support six children is pleading for change. The shocking extent of the city’s housing crisis was laid bare last month by Scottish Empty Homes Partnership which revealed 7,700 people were on a waiting list. Afterwards, people came forward to speak to the Tele and Grant Gordon, 34, said he was “horrified” at the similarities of local families living in overcrowded and cramped conditions to his own.

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