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Self help housing part of the solution - New Start blog

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Self Help Housing.org’s Director, Jon Fitzmaurice, responds to news of government funding to deal with problems caused by empty properties with a blog post on how self help housing can help tackle anti-social behaviour.

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Government cash to get empty homes back into use

Housing Minister John Healey has announced funding to help councils tackle empty property and anti-social behaviour. £1million will be made available to 17 councils where anti-social behaviour focused around empty properties has been identified by local residents as a problem. The funding will be used to train council staff in getting empty homes back into use.

Jon Fitzmaurice, Director of Self-Help-Housing.org said: “This is a welcome move on the part of Government, but is limited to only seventeen local authorities and fails to build on, or support, the work of existing community based self help housing initiatives. We will be approaching John Healey to raise these issues “

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MOD criticised over empty properties

Almost 8,000 homes for Armed Forces families are standing empty despite the Ministry of Defence spending £17m a year renting substitute properties reports Housing News.

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Grassroots Grants

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Third Sector reports that the Government’s Grassroots Grants scheme has paid out £34million in its first year. Nearly 13,500 grants worth an average of £2,500 were distributed to community groups between September 2008 and September 2009. For details of how to apply for a grant, click here.

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Number of long-term empty private homes above 300,000

Regen.net reports that the number of private homes standing empty for more than six months has risen above 300,000 for the first time in five years.

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