Housing Crisis

Housing Crisis

Vaughan Road development site phase two groundworks

Council to mothball Exeter City Living Vaughan Road flats after first phase leaving £2.75m groundworks fenced off

Twelve year-old plan to rebuild remaining pre-war Laing’s Easiform council houses in Buddle Lane estate to be seen through to completion instead, as undelivered local housing promises finally collide with reality.

Paternoster House scaffolding

Paternoster House flats described as “blueprint for Exeter’s future” marketed for rent at up to £3,500 per month

Standard minimum earnings eligibility threshold to rent each of four city centre flats so far completed ranges from £71,500 to £104,000 per annum, three times Exeter median wages, while best-paid 10% in Devon earn £52,400.

Rough sleeper sheltering at Exeter Guildhall

THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2024

Homelessness and hardship hustings

St Petrock’s and Citizens Advice Exeter host a general election hustings to focus political attention on the city’s most vulnerable people.

SOUTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

Claire Wright and Peter Stephenson

FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2024

St Petrock’s Big Night Out

Exeter homelessness charity invites people to sleep out under the stars, or in another safe location, to help raise money for rough sleepers.

Land Trust garden community development of 3,000 homes at Beaulieu, near Chelmsford

Liveable Exeter “garden city” branding is about government funding, not green space

New Exeter Local Plan policy “principles” have little in common with historic vision revitalised for 21st century by TCPA for government programme, while consented Haven Banks scheme and proposed new town near Exeter Airport have even less.

St Petrocks homelessness charity Christmas appeal 2023

St Petrock’s Christmas appeal to raise funds to support its work with rough sleepers

Exeter homelessness charity’s fundraising campaign features short film exploring how it feels to be homeless.

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