# SRC: Academic research on empty homes in England and Wales 2016-17

* **Jonathan Bourne**, of the Bartlett University College London, and put together a **database of empty homes across England and Wales in 2016-17 through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests** as part of this academic research:
  * **Empty homes: mapping the extent and value of low-use domestic property in England and Wales**
  * &#x20;<https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0216-y>
* He made the data available here: <https://osf.io/b3u4d/>
* And the code he used in the statistical analysis is here: <https://github.com/JonnoB/EmptyHomesCode>


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