A housing crisis has hit Edmonton with house prices rocketing to almost 11 times the mean salary, according to research.

Homes for Britain ranked Edmonton in top 100 parliamentary constituencies for unaffordable housing, with mean house prices 10.7 times that of the average wage.

The campaign also stated that nationally, homelessness had risen by 37 per cent in the past four years, with a doubling of housing benefit claimants to 22.5 per cent.

Edmonton MP Andy Love said he was not surprised by the latest figures.

The Labour Party representative said: "It’s no surprise that Edmonton ranks so highly in terms of housing unaffordability. A vast proportion of my constituents have no hope of being able to afford to buy a property and many are struggling to pay the extortionate rents, despite being in work."

The campaign is aiming to end the housing crisis within a generation with Mr Love welcoming his own party’s pledge to build 200,000 new homes by 2020.