Every week, I am contacted by hundreds of residents in Wythenshawe and Sale East suffering the impact of 14 years of Tory failure on housing.

Residents who have seen mortgage interest rates shoot up in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget.

Residents desperate to get onto the housing ladder but unable to do so due to the gulf between unaffordable house prices and stagnant wages.

Families being kicked out of their homes with just a few weeks’ notice, last year the number of Section 21 notices increased by 49 per cent.

Residents of all ages and household type desperately waiting for a social home.

There are over 25,000 people currently on social housing waiting lists in Manchester and Trafford. The majority of these will wait an average of between 26 and 40 months for a house. Finally there are residents who contact me facing imminent homelessness.

Last year, England reached record levels of homelessness with over 104,000 people made homeless. At the same time, homeownership hit a record low.  In fact, Last year, in England, more people were made homeless than bought their first home. A shocking fact that highlights the scale of how broken our housing system is.   

We were once a nation of homeowners. A country where a secure, affordable home was an inalienable right. That is not the case right now for many people, but it doesn’t have to be like this.

Where Labour is in power, we are already making a difference to the housing crisis. Labour-run Trafford Council have stepped up to address the local housing crisis. In Sale Town Centre, in addition to a successful regeneration of Stanley Square, Trafford Council have bought and are demolishing Sale Magistrates' Court to build dozens of new and affordable homes on the site and have plans for regeneration at other locations in the town centre. While in Sale Moor, they have plans to bring disused and sub-standard housing back into use – creating many new one and two-bedroom socially rented homes for residents.  

In the Manchester side of Wythenshawe and Sale East, the Labour Council have set out an ambitious housing strategy to create 36,000 more homes – 10,000 of which will be social and affordable housing. The regeneration of Wythenshawe town centre will deliver 1,600 new homes right at the heart of my constituency.  

That’s why I was pleased to see both councils adopt a major planning document, Places for Everyone last month. It will provide new jobs, new homes and new communities, so that our children and our children’s children can make a future for themselves and a home here in Trafford.

Mike Kane is the MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East.