The Charity
The Empty Homes Agency is a charitable Industrial and Provident Society, as well as a charitable housing association, an industrial and provident society, and a member of the National Federation of Housing. It is a registered charity in England, No. 27697R and thus it is not registered with the Charity Commission. In 2003 30% of its funds came from the UK Government through the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Empty Homes' Chief Executive David Ireland is often quoted in the housing press, and is a respected spokesperson for empty homes work. Recent media coverage has included an interview alongside the Dutch architect Ineke Hulshof on the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours, and articles in several media outlets concerning the 12,000 ‘unofficial’ empty dwellings in England discovered by researchers at Empty Homes.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)