Affordable homes

We desperately need good quality affordable homes especially for our young families. My daughter, her husband and 2 boys have lived in a mobile home for the last 10 years, both hard working with the hope of saving to build their own little home but it's very hard going. My son, his wife and children live in rented property (the first house they had to move out of as the landlady wanted to sell) and the house they are in now charges too much for what it is. They also work hard but the wages down here do not correlate with the house prices. I also live in a rented flat. There are too many new houses being built that are either substandard and develop problems within a year or two or are way too expensive and get sold as either second homes or to incomers. A development of 'luxury' apartments near me offered local people 2 of the small ones and all the rest were bought by Duchy Holidays who rent them out for extortianate prices to holiday makers. This needs to be stopped. You need to give our local families priority. Many of them move away to areas where they can actually afford to live and my son and his family are thinking about this which will be heartbreaking. The house prices in Cornwall are some of the most expensive in the UK. My eldest son now lives on the Isle of Wight where you can purchase a well built victorian 3 bed semi for half the price similar properties cost down here.

Stop selling to second home owners and incomers and put our struggling young families (and other locals first)

Living during lockdown in caravans and sub standard rented accommodation with no garden is no fun for families.