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Rural Affordable Housing
A healthy home is the foundation for a decent life, but our broken housing system is failing to deliver the affordable homes that people need. Let’s breathe life back into rural communities and help a new generation call the countryside their home.
Many parts of rural England have a housing affordability problem.
The reasons for the shortage in affordable homes for people are widely disputed. But people in housing need within rural areas find themselves at the acute end of the crisis, faced with stagnating wages and rising housing costs.
A proliferation of second homes and properties being converted into short term lets has put further pressure on an already overheated housing market. This is having a devastating impact on life in the countryside, with many people forced to leave the communities they love and call home, draining skills and economic activity across the country, and undermining the provision of vital public services
In this report, CPRE, the countryside charity aims to increase understanding of the issues surrounding the supply of rural affordable housing, what actually constitutes ‘affordable’ housing and what policies are currently in place to support affordable housing delivery.
The state of rural affordable housing in England