An agency that has helped bring 11,000 empty homes back into use in the South-east over the past year has branched out into the North and Midlands to try its tactics on areas of low demand.
The Empty Homes Agency has won £300,000 for three years from the Community Fund to pay for work in the North and Midlands, where nine market renewal pathfinders are attempting to turn around failing housing markets. It hopes to be an independent adviser to communities and to bring in successful ideas from London and the South-east.

Chief executive Jonathan Ellis said: "We want to be an extra resource to help those people who find themselves trapped in a position of low demand find a way out."

The agency has appointed John Earnshaw to lead the project. He was a regional manager at the National Housing Mobility Scheme, under which tenants can move between districts.

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Housing Today