Cardiff Council has said that 83 empty properties in the city have been brought back into use since April 2021 with support through its empty homes policy. The council says that it has up to 300 properties in the city that have been highlighted as an issue, and "although the onus is on the private property owner to deal with these issues, council officers actively pursue them to ensure the properties can be brought back into use as quickly as possible."
Figures released in December 2021 found that there were more than 1,355 private sector homes which had been left empty for more than six months. Of the 1,355 long term empty homes, 340 were empty for more than two years, 132 for more than five years, and 53 for more than a decade.
In October last year, Cardiff Council announced the city was in the "middle of a crisis", with around 8,000 people on the waiting list for social housing, and demand increasing. The figures revealed that Roath was the ward with the most empty properties, with 166 as of April 2019. The Cathays ward, which includes the city centre, has the second highest with 140. This was followed by Grangetown with 123, and Riverside, including Pontcanna, with 110.
