Andy Burnham wants to revolutionise council housing. But he's up against a funding system built, over the past decade, to beat him — as even his own Housing Secretary admits the 'bar is low'

’If anyone’s going to do it, it will be him’, says Manchester homelessness charity boss

Andy Burnham told his Cabinet this morning that they need to give people a ‘sense that help is coming’. He was largely focused on the cost of living as he addressed ministers, but…