I’ve posted a few times about housing shortages, and this article from Saturday’s i newspaper is truly grim, from England’s second city.

“Behind a dark doorway a the heart of one of Britain’s biggest conurbations lies a secret subterranean “Cave” where homeless men sleep in conditions that would have horrified Victorian social observers. The lair is close to the brightly-lit shops of Manchester city centre and a luxurious 5 star hotel. The floor of he pitch-black brick-lined cave, which stands across the River Irwell in salford, is covered with debris – food wrappings, empty cider bottles and rotting sleeping bags. Beneath feet crunch dozens of used drug needles. Among the men living in the cave is David Palmer, 38 who has been on the streets since 2008. “Two of us are regulars there,” says dDavid, who sleeps in a tend in one of the cave’s deeper vaults. “Water comes in…