Blackpool's social housing challenge - frustration, innovation and the colourful homes showing what can be achieved

The town has 12,000 people on the housing waiting list. As Barry Lanza describes being left homeless we ask what is being done?

Barry Lanza was given just minutes to pack his bags and leave the Blackpool flat he’d called home for 36 years when the building was condemned.

The 72 year old, who has a brain tumour, prostate cancer and COPD, was forced to pack his medication and head to a guest house with his two chihuahuas, before paying for two nights in a Travelodge at his own expe…