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House prices, wages and second homes are pushing people out of the countryside

Hard working people on middle incomes such as teachers and nurses have been squeezed out of renting in rural towns and villages in southern England, reveals new analysis from CPRE, the countryside charity

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House prices, wages and second homes are pushing people out of the countryside

Record high rents and house prices, stagnating wages, huge waiting lists for social housing and a proliferation of second homes and short-term lets are draining the countryside of skills, economic activity...

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