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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“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)