Andy Burnham has called for a suspension of the Right to Buy scheme and outlined his intention to build 10,000 new homes across Greater Manchester.

The newly re-elected Mayor of Manchester has said that the housing crisis has got “worse each year”, which he then blamed on the controversial Right to Buy.

Speaking to the BBC, Burnham said: “We lose social homes every year, and across Greater Manchester for the last year 500 social homes were lost. I’m saying to Whitehall and Westminster – you need to allow us to suspend Right to Buy from the new homes that we are building because if we don’t, trying to solve the housing crisis is like trying to fill a bath but with the plug out because you try and build new homes, but you lose them at the other end.”

Following his electoral success last week, the mayor also said he would build 10,000 new social homes, which will be partly delivered by working with public bodies to “release brown field land”.

According to Burnham, his building plans will lead to a “new generation of council homes which will be cheaper to run,” adding that there “is no solution to the housing crisis without building homes that people can truly afford”.

The mayor also intends to instigate a good landlord charter to tackle problems with standards in the private rented sector. He said: “We’re going to give our residents the right to request a property check if they are concerned their home is unfit or unsafe.”