Tourists to south-west England urged to check if rental affects housing crisis
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZPWP)
Calls for ethical consideration' of short-term lets as 3,000 second homes registered in south-west in pandemic
Tourists heading to holiday homes in the south-west of England are being urged to check before they travel if their rental will worsen the area's affordable housing crisis.
The call for ethical consideration" of the potential negative impact of short-term lets comes as figures showed 3,000 new holiday and second homes were registered in the south-west during the pandemic while homes listed for normal letting halved and rents jumped.
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