Plea to fill town's empty homes

[expat]

Only another small step before you hear a knock on the door and:

"Jawohl Comrade! Heil Supreme Leader Brown! The esteemed Council NuNazi Liebour Politburo are hencewith confiscating your spare rooms for the State as it is your social duty to provide shelter for Mr, Mrs, Mrs, and Mrs Ürümqi, from Kazakhstan who are here on a cultural exchange of your taxes for their handouts.

Ihre Papieren, bitte!"

I will just point out that the British government requisitioned a lot more houses than the Germans did.

[milanbenes]

difference is, they weren't rushing it in like you are

Milan.

[Board Game Geek]

"Jawohl Comrade! Heil Supreme Leader Brown! The esteemed Council NuNazi Liebour Politburo are hencewith confiscating your spare rooms for the State as it is your social duty to provide shelter for Mr, Mrs, Mrs, and Mrs Ürümqi, from Kazakhstan who are here on a cultural exchange of your taxes for their handouts.

Ihre Papieren, bitte!"

I suppose the good folks of Germany in the lead up to '39 probably thought something similar to the above too ludicrous to come true as well.

[milanbenes]

BGG,



you need to go home and lie down.



Milan.

[tim123]

There are lots of empty houses in Lncashire towns beginning with "B"

You mean Acrington is full!

tim

[hyperD]

Only another small step before you hear a knock on the door and:

"Jawohl Comrade! Heil Supreme Leader Brown! The esteemed Council NuNazi Liebour Politburo are hencewith confiscating your spare rooms for the State as it is your social duty to provide shelter for Mr, Mrs, Mrs, and Mrs Ürümqi, from Kazakhstan who are here on a cultural exchange of your taxes for their handouts.

Ihre Papieren, bitte!"

[BrilloPad]

There are lots of empty houses in Lncashire towns beginning with "B"

[Gonzo]

Who on earth would want to live in Southend-on-Sea

I am not surprised that the houses are empty.

[Troll]

WHS double bollux

My houses & I decide what to do with them... fooked up socialist thinking

[xoggoth]

I could. My house. Bollox to 'em.

Mr Caring

[Board Game Geek]

Residents of an Essex town have been urged to report to the council any empty homes they have seen.

A shortage of housing in the area could be tackled if homeowners use, sell or let their properties, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council said.

The council said it would work with owners to occupy homes and may use enforcement powers to bring those vacant for two years back into use.

Residents were urged to report homes that were empty for six months or more.

The government said there were about 680,000 empty homes across England and the vast majority of them were privately owned.

As well as impacting on housing demand, empty homes attract vandals and squatters, the council said.

In the past two years, the council has brought 137 privately-owned homes back into use as residential accommodation.

Is this is successful, could it be extended to other councils ?

If so, would it have an impact on the housing crisis ?

It does seem criminally negligent that unwanted houses are sitting vacant when they could be resourced to good use.

I try to be sympathetic and wonder how it would feel if I had a house elsewhere (eg Spain) plus another here in the UK sitting idle for 6 months or more, but I don't think I could justify that sort of selfishness. Well, it wouldnt sit right with me anyway. YMMV.