The recently-launched Housing First unit aims to increase the supply of housing, and drive up standards.
And the UK’s first Good Landlord Charter will mean tenants will be able to take action against rogue landlords by requesting a property check by an enforcement team.
Chloe Towers, from Ashton-under-Lyne, has two young children and lives in a hostel with her two year-old son.
The 24-year-old said: “I was living in a rented house with my two kids but it was full of mould. I was sharing a bedroom with them. My three-year-old daughter won’t sleep with me in the hostel, so she’s now staying with her father. Every single Wednesday, I bid for a house, so me and my two children can live there”.
Currently, about 86,000 people are on waiting lists for social housing in the region.
