Kirklees Council is being handed £1.4m to bring derelict houses and commercial premises back into use.
The money is part of a £91m handout from Government to local authorities across England.
The aim is to refurbish premises where empty properties have led to problems of squatting, rat infestation and collapsing house prices – driving remaining residents away.
Kirklees and Calderdale have both been identified as having particularly high levels of empty homes clustered together and will receive specific funding to tackle the problem.
Kirklees Council will receive £1.4m, while Calderdale Council will receive nearly £300,000 from the Government’s Clusters of Empty Homes programme.
In addition, registered social landlords, community and voluntary groups across Kirklees, Leeds and Bradford will get funding to bring nearly 60 empty homes back into use.
Communities Minister Don Foster said: “The government is doing everything possible to tackle the problem of empty homes and urban blight.
“We’re going to do even more, with towns across England benefiting from £91m to refurbish over 6,000 empty properties to get them back into use.
“This will bring people, shops and jobs back to once-abandoned areas and provide extra affordable homes we so badly need.
“We have already made very good progress, cutting the number of long-term empty homes by 40,000, but with thousands of people in this country desperate to buy a home and areas still suffering problems of urban blight we must go further still.”
The funding is being allocated under two programmes.
The first sees £61m available from the second round of the empty homes funding programme, provided to successful bidders eligible from all areas across England outside London with empty homes.
Some £41m of this is allocated by the Homes and Communities Agency to registered social landlords with the rest going to community and voluntary groups.
Under this programme, Deighton-based social enterprise Fresh Horizons will receive £360,103 for four homes.
The second programme sees £30m made available from the Clusters of Empty Homes programme to bring about 3,500 homes back into use.
Kirklees Council will get £1.4m from this fund and Calderdale Council will receive almost £300,000.
Andy Rose, Homes and Communities Agency chief executive, said: “We had a very encouraging response to the funding across a wide range of types of property.
“This demonstrates a strong appetite and scope for bringing empty homes and properties back into use.
“This in turn will help to reinvigorate our communities and towns.
“We look forward to working with housing providers to bring these homes forward,” he said.
