AN ARMY veteran has been forced to live in a campervan - she says owners of second houses have flooded her hometown. Lauren Bray, 27, is desperate to remain in her beloved part of Cornwall where detached properties sold for an average of £348,868 over the last year. 9 Army veteran Lauren Bray, 27 chose to live in a converted campervan Credit: BackGrid 9 With soaring house prices it was the only way she could stay in her hometown Credit: BackGrid 9 Lauren bought the van for £3,700 and now has far fewer bills than homeowners Credit: BackGrid 9 She blames the house prices on second home-owners in the area Credit: BackGrid Without any chance of buying her own home due to soaring house prices, Lauren decided to cut the costs and try out a nomadic lifestyle.
She told The Mirror: “There’s a housing crisis here and it’s so bad - locals cannot afford places here. “I don’t see it ever changing - I think it’s just going to get worse because more and more people are coming to Cornwall." Since paying £3,700 for her baby blue Volkswagen Transporter (T4) panel van, lovingly named Genie from Aladdin, Lauren now faces far fewer bills than most homeowners.
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