Submitted by Andrew Potter on Thursday 9th October 2025
Published on Monday 17th November 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Sunday 17th May 2026
Current Signatures: 53
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Affordable ~ Bears ~ Boost ~ Cost ~ Cost of living ~ Council ~ DOUBLED ~ Emergency ~ Homeless ~ Homes ~ Housing ~ investment ~ Landlords ~ Millions ~ Minimum ~ mortgages ~ refugees ~ Rent ~ Rents ~ Sale ~ Sell ~ Soaring ~ Solutions ~ sustainability ~ taxpayers ~ Thousands ~ Years
Require landlords to sell vacant properties to house homeless and refugees
With over 700,000 empty homes, 170,000 vacant commercial properties, and around 350,000 homeless people, taxpayers shouldn’t bear the housing burden. Empty properties could be sold to investors committed to easing homelessness for a minimum of two years post-purchase.
The cost of living has risen: rents are soaring, many mortgages have doubled, and affordable housing is scarce. Councils spend millions on emergency housing while thousands of properties lie empty. Requiring the sale of long-term vacant homes to investors who house the homeless for at least two years could cut public costs, boost investment, and turn dormant assets into sustainable housing solutions without further burdening taxpayers.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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