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

  • 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