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The socialist mayor so passionate about council housing he still lives in it

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city Salford's socialist mayor Paul Dennett lives and breathes council housing.

Under his brand of 'sensible socialism', he wants to build 3,000 new council homes in Salford – and he has already committed funding for the first 600.

But for the Labour mayor, this costly aspiration is not solely about creating homes for the 6,000 households waiting for accommodation in the city.

Ask him why he still lives in social housing himself, five years after he got the £66,000-a-year job, and his reasoning reveals the principles behind his plans. "My view and vision for council housing in the future is that it should be available for everyone," he says. "We always

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