North Yorkshire commission calls for grass roots approach to tackle rural housing crisis
Most rural commentators know this but I think it is useful to be regularly reminded that affordable housing is in very short supply in rural settings. This story tells us:
The dire lack of affordable properties available to both buy and rent has been blamed for an exodus of young people from many villages and market towns across the country.
In some of the most desirable districts to live in North Yorkshire, the average property costs nearly £400,000 while the weekly wage in the county is just over £530.
The Yorkshire Post revealed on Saturday that housing experts had warned the Government that Yorkshire and the rest of northern England are being “frozen out” of vital home-building schemes because of funding criteria which favour London and the South East.