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600,000 homes stand empty as homelessness continues to peak
Police officers talk to a homeless man in Windsor, Berkshire ahead of the wedding of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle

MORE than 600,000 homes in Britain stand empty while homelessness continues to peak, Attic Self Storage revealed today.

In 2017, there were 605,891 vacant homes in Britain, according to government data.

Of those, around a third were classified as “long-term vacant,” meaning they have been empty for at least six months.

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