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Housing scandal
Jan 3 2008 by Andrew Baldwin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
TOWN hall officials who have taken steps to ensure renovations at a rundown house in Dewsbury fully deserve a big pat on the back.
Neighbours had long complained about the state of the property, rightly claiming its dilapidated state was dragging down the whole street.
The wonder is that no-one can find who owns the terraced home – it appears to have been simply abandoned.
That this has happened at a time when an increasing number of people are homeless is nothing short of a scandal and hard to understand.
Yet the astonishing fact is that around 15% of all homes in Britain have no apparent owner.
We need new legislation to make it easier for the authorities not only to take these properties in hand, but to put them to the use for which they were meant – as a roof over somebody’s head.
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