Around 94 percent of affordable homes in the Scarborough Borough are allocated to local people.
That's the reassurance from the borough's housing team who say that despite social housing being allocated on a North Yorkshire wide basis, the number of people being allocated homes in Scarborough from outside the borough is very small.
Andrew Rowe is the borough's housing manager:
He adds there are some special circumstances, but that the area actually exports more people than it imports:
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A new support group for survivors of bereavement by suicide has launched in Scarborough and is to benefit from a fundraising event tonight.
Scarborough charity The Rainbow Centre, have launched their Christmas appeal, hoping to raise £10,000 to help the homeless, vulnerable families and those in crisis over the Christmas period.
The number of dog attacks on livestock in North Yorkshire has increased significantly since COVID.
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