Manchester must build 36,000 new homes across the city over the next 10 years to keep up with demand – and 10,000 of them should be affordable. That is the town hall's take on what the city must do to tackle its housing crisis.
Manchester council will sell land on the cheap so housing associations can create more affordable housing, build new homes itself and push developers to play their part too, leaders have said as they launch a new housing strategy. And at least a third of the city's 70,000 social homes should be retrofitted by 2032 to cut carbon emissions and bring energy bills down, the strategy says.
It comes as Manchester council launches its housing strategy for the next decade, the first since ex-leader Sir Richard Leese resigned six months ago. The former leader's 25-year reign saw huge growth across Manchester.
