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Empty homes are on the rise. So why aren't they being used to solve the housing shortage?

In 1980, when Corina Poore, 36 years old and pregnant, first opened the door to a derelict house in New Cross Gate, south-east London, the estate agent refused to step in with her. Inside were dead ...

'There are dozens of empty homes but families like mine are living in limbo'

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to Lambeth Council has revealed that in the past year, across six regeneration estates ...