Of north Norfolk's 55,000 properties, nearly 6,000 are either second homes or are empty long-term.
"There isn't anywhere really to rent and the places that are here are too expensive," says Ms Robins.
She bought her house in Wells in 2018 with a view to retiring to the town from her home in London in 2021. The coronavirus pandemic forced her to bring forward her plans and she moved to Wells the day before the first lockdown in 2020. The organisation, itself modelled on similar groups in north Norfolk, currently has 31 properties it is letting out to key workers in Wells. It has 46 individuals and families on the waiting list of whom six are currently classed as homeless.
"There are big differences between them," she says. "Second home owners often plan to live here one day and can make a very valuable contribution to the community while others only come now and again and just use it as a holiday home. Whether it will work, she says, remains to be seen, because there is nothing to prevent who those homes will be sold on to in the future.
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