The North's housing shame | Stephen Topping on Rochdale's forgotten estate | Why Yorkshire's rented homes are the worst in England

Following a heartbreaking investigation by the Manchester Evening News, which found that two-year-old Awaab Ishak died after his lungs were exposed to damp and mould in a social housing flat in Rochdale, The Northern Agenda looks at the North's housing shame.Rob Parsons speaks to Stephen Topping, the journalist who worked on the investigation, about how the tragedy is just one example of the terrible conditions that families are living in on the Freehold estate in the Greater Manchester town.And with around 1.2 million Northern private rented households being deemed as "non-decent" in a new report, Dan O'Donohue is joined by Brian Robson from the Northern Housing Consortium to discuss the actions that Boris Johnson's successor must take to address the issue.The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons and Daniel O'Donoghue, and it is produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices