More Empty Homes than People on Housing Waiting List

More than 5,600 homes have been sitting empty in Oxfordshire – more than enough to clear the city’s housing waiting list in one fell swoop. The Oxford Mail has obtained figures revealing there were 5,616 empty homes across the county in March – of which 1,749 had been unoccupied for six months or longer – as councils said they were working hard to bring them back into use. Oxford’s waiting list is 3,896 households, which, notionally, could be wiped out easily in one go. It comes after Oxfordshire’s housing authorities were told they had to build 100,000 homes by 2031 to help alleviate the county’s pressing need for new homes. Read more on the Oxford Mail website.