Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, said: “The bottom “line is that you don’t solve an affordability crisis by getting rid of affordable housing. Our housing shortage has been decades in the making, and all those struggling to cope with expensive and insecure private renting are bearing the brunt.
“200,000 homes over the course of a parliament sounds good on the surface, but in reality this is giving with one hand and taking with the other. Removing the requirement on developers to build affordable housing is extremely worrying, and won’t help those currently struggling with sky high housing costs.
“Politicians of all parties need to convince voters that they can solve this crisis once and for all. More piecemeal schemes won’t do – we need a big bold plan that will fix our broken house-building market for the long term, and finally put a stable home back within reach for generation rent.”
East Devon Watch 
We are for ever being told that many jobs for young people are being made available from the purposed developments of the master plan in Exmouth.
But it is mainly low paid jobs that are being advertised, in fact around 90% will be no more then £10 per hour.
How can any local youngsters, even with this Governments promise of a 20% discount, will they ever be able to afford a deposit of around £80 000, which a person wishing to buy a property needs in the local area like Exmouth.
Many developers find that building flats for those coming to Devon for retirement are much more profitable, and we do have those willing to pay high prices, for the rents they can receive, this is what our standing MP has never addressed.
I am a retired 80 year old, who bought his house in 2000 for £120,000, it has increased by over £120,000 since.
But wages have not kept up, unless you are those at the top of the ladder, but we are expected to be dealing with this together.
We must have change at the May Election if we are going to make East Devon a fairer place to live in.
Let us all hope we can have a fresh voice to speak up for all young people, which we are all sadly missing at the moment.
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