Grade-Ruan Parish sits right on the tip of the Lizard peninsula.
Its a stunning place, as remote west Cornwall tends to be, with dead-silent beaches and just a smattering of small villages in its borders.
Like the rest of Cornwall, however, those who are born in this beautiful area are unable to stay there, pushed out by low wages and high house prices.
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The lack of social and genuinely affordable housing in Cornwall isnt reaching breaking point - its arguably already there.
Thousands of people are stuck on seemingly endless waiting lists for a home, which get longer each week.
The Covid pandemic continues to make the housing situation in the county worse, locals dont have a lot of options - with house prices and rents rising far higher than any average wage.
As the situation begins to look more and more desperate, solutions ranging from tiny houses mounted on caravan trailers to moving out of Cornwall have been offered.
Decades ago, social housing was seen as the solution to any comparable housing crisis, with thousands upon thousands of homes built after the Second World War ravaged peoples places of residence.
These traditional council houses, owned by a local authority, protected from the open market and rented to those in need, are all but gone now, with housing stocks stripped away by right to buy schemes.
However, several groups - land trusts - have begun to try and recreate the legacy of the council house, and hope to stymie the tide of a rapidly worsening housing situation.
Cornwall Community Land Trust, based in Penzance, at first glance seems simply like a housing association.
However, Andrew George, former Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives and current Cornwall Councillor for Ludgvan, Madron, Gulval and Heamoor, says the trust is the countys best chance at genuinely tackling the housing crisis.
The trust, Cllr Andrew explained, is approached by villages, or towns, who explain what their needs are.
Once a suitable piece of land is found, builders, labourers and all the legal people are summoned and paid for by the council and grant-funded trust.
The houses are built, after which the trust does something council and housing association homes do not always do.
All land trust homes are, by law, protected in perpetuity, Andrew said, They are locked.
The rentals are let for an amount which can be afforded by housing allowance, and the bought houses go for a fraction of market price.
The aim is 30-33 per cent of the houses market value. But, as Andrew explained, market value is leaping up far quicker than the cost of building a house.
Crucially, the sold houses then cannot be sold on the open market. Unlike traditional council houses which, once bought, can then be resold in any way the occupant likes.
A legal covenant means these houses remain social after they are taken on by a local family in need.
And the people who live in the houses must show their local claim and their need, he added.
The professionals are paid properly, but the developers arent filling their boots. Some people make some rather eye watering profits, where locals are struggling.
Back to Grade-Ruan - the most recent recipient of help from Cornwall Community Land Trust - the need was rented homes.
Grade-Ruan wanted rented houses, Andrew said, So we have supplied them with six 2-3 bedroom rented homes.
We supplied them with two-three bedroom rented homes. To get around bedroom tax, theyre sort of 1.5 bedrooms, it keeps the price down for the people there.
Andrew, during his time in office as an MP, was a staunch opponent of bedroom tax.
He continued: Theres also a study room, which allows flexibility.
All of the homes adhere to the space standard which the council has adopted for homes.
The trust has been most potent in areas like Grade-Ruan, Rock, and the Roseland.
If we can get any additional subsidy to bring the cost down we will, Andrew said.
Fundamentally, its set on what the salaries on the area can afford, not on what the market price is.
Our project up at Rock, you can imagine the house prices up there at the moment.
Its areas like Rock, where second home owners demolish cottages and turn them into mansions, which need this.
Another recent one, near St Mawes, saw locals buy heavily discounted houses, in stark contrast to the almost exclusively more than 500,000 homes on the market in that area.
Andrew admitted that he was cynical of the land trust model at first, and assumed they were just like any other scheme - and worried it wouldnt work.
He said: Im converted to it, I wouldnt do this job if I didnt think it was worthwhile.
Im really blessed to have a fantastic team of committed and professional people. The Ruan Minor scheme - were deliriously happy about it.
Six happy families who are much more happily housed than in the caravans or insecure places they were living before.
Were trying to scale up, and have planning applications in for more of the schemes.
Because of the housing emergency, more people are coming to us and asking for help.
Land trusts, then, arent a quick fix - but theyre potentially a step in the direction of bringing reviving an almost non-existent tradition of proper social housing, in a county which is in dire need of it.
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