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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Nicholas Cecil

Empty homes in London should be seized under new powers for councils to tackle housing crisis, say MPs

New powers should be used to seize control of empty homes in London and allow councils to use them for social housing, say MPs.

They stressed that there are between 542,000 and 1.2 million empty homes in England, many of them in the capital.

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