Three Greater Manchester MPs and Salford mayor Paul Dennett have urged social housing bosses to take urgent action over the "life-threatening squalor" some tenants are living in.
This follows the revelation that an entire row of terraced houses owned by housing association Salix Homes is teeming with rats and mice.
A letter to the chief executives of Salix, Irwell Valley Homes, Great Places, Pendleton Together, For Housing, Mosscare St Vincent's and Onward Homes has been signed by MPs Rebecca Long-Bailey (Salford and Eccles), Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South) and Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton) as well as Mr Dennett.
Their action has been prompted by a group of residents in Rake Lane, Swinton who say they have been traumatised by rats, mice and flies for months.
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