Locals still being priced out of buying or renting homes on Yorkshire Coast
They can't afford it due to the amount of short-term holiday lets and second homes
A woman from Whitby says people are leaving the town to buy and rent properties as they cannot afford it.
It is because second homes, short-term and holiday lets are driving locals away to find a place to live.
Jane Downes now lives in Snainton near Scarborough and she has family in Whitby which she wants to go back to.
She said: "People are selling holiday cottages and people who would like to buy in Whitby can't afford the prices because they're absolutely expensive. ÂŁ400,000 for a cottage and at the time they probably got it for less than ÂŁ200,000 and they're asking ridiculous prices and local people can't afford it pay that.
"I think it's disgusting. There's not a community anymore. You used to be able to walk into town and you knew everybody and everybody looked out for everybody else. I could go into town now and there's hardly anyone that I know in the town.
"We used to be able to go down Baxtergate and you'd be there for an hour trying to get one end to the other because you'd see people you knew, you'd ask them how they were, what they were doing and how's their family and now you never see them. As a matter of fact, they don't go into Whitby anymore in the season.
"My son's working in Whitby and he can't afford to get a mortgage and the most they'd give him is ÂŁ100,000 because they're saying his job is not secure. It devastates you because he's proud of where he lives and he's proud of his ancestry.
"My other son is partially sighted. He used to work but can't work anymore so now Richard has had to move out of town to get somewhere in Scarborough, because he can't afford to rent a flat in Whitby because it's so expensive.
"I think what they should do is like they do in the villages like Glaisdale where you can't buy a property unless you have some connection with that village, and they should make that the same in Whitby as local people are moving out of town because they can't afford to live there."
Today is the last chance to have your say on the Government's holiday lets rules.