
The price of a house in the midlands jumped over 10% in the last year.
Our housing crisis is a political prioritisation issue rather than simply a resource problem.
That's according to campaign group Uplift which says schemes designed to get empty homes back on the market are not up to scratch.
Latest figures from the CSO found midlands house prices rose by 10.2% in the 12 months to December, despite there being nearly 81 thousand properties lying vacant across the country.
Siobhan O'Donoghue from Uplift says it's time to change our tactics on housing: