BRITAIN’S housing market is broken. Salford and Greater Manchester illustrate the crisis. There is a massive shortage of actually affordable homes and council houses while luxury apartments are simply unaffordable, too small and not suitable for many people including families.

Our housing policy is outsourced to the likes of billionaire bookie Fred Done, who churns out build-to-rent tower blocks, monopolising landlordism on an industrial scale.

All across the city we have also seen a massive rise in homes of multiple occupancy, in which landlords cram as many tenants as possible with no regard for their welfare or living conditions.