Thousands of homes in Nottingham have been sitting empty
for more than six months amid the nation's housing crisis. Recently released data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities shows at least 4,559 homes liable for council tax in the city had been unoccupied for at least six months at the most recent count in October.
The need for accessible homes in the city is massive, with more than 8,000 households currently waiting for a council home in Nottingham. Nottingham City Council is only able to provide between 1,400 to 1,600 properties a year, and said a further 6,000 households were annually presenting as homeless.
In Nottinghamshire as a whole there were 14,784 homes left empty, according to DLHC data. Last year the figures were slightly lower with 13,867 empty homes across the county, in 2017 the government found there were 13,268 vacant properties in Nottinghamshire.
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