Successive governments have been ignoring the vacant dwellings issue for long enough now. I hope the present administration will set the ball rolling.
What a shame!
Besides being an eyesore, these crumbling properties are a menace to their neighbours.
The courts should speed up cases concerning vacant properties and not allow them to drag on forever. Furthermore, it should be made illegal for one or two people among those inheriting a property to be able to stop a sale from being concluded only because they happen to disagree with something.
One sure way of making the owners to make a move is by imposing a vacant property tax on buildings that have been neglected and have remained unoccupied for longer than a given period of time.