Coronavirus: ‘Buy up empty homes to ease overcrowding’, Hackney MP tells government
Meg Hillier and fellow MP Karen Buck urge Whitehall to ‘relieve pressure on overstretched housing sector’
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Town Hall to hike up council tax on empty homes in ‘carrot and stick’ approach
Empty home owners asked to become landlords for homeless families as premiums set to rise to 200% from April
Hackney has more than 1,000 empty homes – amid ‘urgent’ housing crisis
Borough has tenth highest number of homeless people in the UK, according to leading charity Shelter