Sentence examples for empty dwellings from inspiring English sources

The idea came about when Bartoli bought several empty dwellings in Favara's semi-abandoned centre.

The median number of additional long-term empty dwellings across those 116 local authorities was 54.

Long-promised regeneration projects have stalled, leaving empty dwellings in the poorest parts of Crewe to fester.

"So how do we facilitate their success?" With 14,000 empty dwellings in the city, officials were open to trying something different.

Police officials say the landscape of abandoned houses, stretching block after block, after Hurricane Katrina is being incorporated into a revived drug trade, with the empty dwellings offering an unexpected convenience to dealers returning from Houston and Atlanta.

There is an emphasis on help for first time buyers through a rent-to-buy scheme, along with plans to reduce the number of empty dwellings, crack down on bad private sector landlords and to improve the construction industry skills base.

Just a minute before, it had been a hungry, empty dwelling.

The house is an empty dwelling without your presence," her daughter Lisha said, according to a report by the AFP.

David Ireland, the chief executive of independent charity Empty Homes, said: "There have only ever been 44 empty dwelling management orders.

Councils have powers under empty dwelling management orders to take over the running of empty homes and collect rent or force their sale, but these powers are not routinely used.

The rules will alter empty dwelling management orders, which were introduced by Labour in 2006 to give councils powers to take over properties that have been empty for as little as six months.