Social housing, we haven’t got enough of it at all. I mean, there’s a real crisis out there, a national crisis. The investment in social housing has been appalling for the last 30 years, and consecutive governments have never addressed it.

I think the law has to change at a primary level, where developers have to in law, have to provide a degree of social housing because, unfortunately, my understanding is that there are a lot of loopholes and developers wriggle away and wriggle out of it.

At a government level, the changes have to be persistent from one change of government to the next, because they change every time. I mean, how many Prime Ministers have we had in the last couple of months? 

We need to take away the stigma of social housing. Because you live in social housing, doesn’t mean to say that you’re anybody less than anybody else. In England, in Britain especially, people are obsessed about owning their own property and it’s shoved down your throat from day one. If you go over to Europe, their attitude to housing is, it’s completely different, to be in social housing, to be in rented accommodation is pretty normal.

The social housing that I’m in, you couldn’t ask for anything better. The most important thing for me is that I’m in a safe place and it’s mine.

I’ll finish on this. There has to be continuity. There has to be a change in law, and really for private developers, they need to be taken in hand because they’re getting away with murder. You’ve seen the amount of new properties that are going up in the middle of Manchester at the moment. And guaranteed they’ll be all slipping and sliding. There won’t be much social housing out there. 

They’re in it for the buck. So come the revolution.