Greens’ Greater Manchester plan to deliver 20,000 affordable homes

As part of their campaign for the Greater Manchester mayor race, the Green Party has announced a plan to build 20,000 affordable homes in the county:

Today we've launched our new Homes for Greater Manchester plan.

Green Mayoral candidate Geraldine Coggins pledges to deliver 20,000 genuinely affordable homes within 10 years, end Labour's developer rip off, and put the people of Greater Manchester before profit.

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The Greens’ plan will be split between:

• Purchasing and refurbishing up to 10,000 homes.
• Building up to 10,000 new publicly owned homes.

The party added:

The homes that are purchased will be publicly owned, not for profit, not for property developers but for the people of Greater Manchester and rented. Purchased homes will also be made available quickly. Every penny of our rental income will get reinvested, which is not the case for Labour’s private-developer model.

A Green mayor of Greater Manchester will end Labour’s developer-led rip off by setting up a publicly owned provider, Homes for Greater Manchester, to take housing back from big money.

This new body will combine building new low-carbon homes and using a buy, retrofit, let model to quickly bring empty and derelict homes back into use.

By contrast, Labour’s model for Greater Manchester has been to hand over large sums of public money to developers in return for little to none affordable housing.

Under Labour, Manchester Housing Investment Loans Fund loaned out nearly a £billion of taxpayer money, 60% to one developer Renaker which has provided no affordable homes at Deansgate Sq or across Manchester, out of 6,110 homes it has built (source GMCA report).

Speaking on the plan, mayoral candidate Geraldine Coggins said:

As mayor, I will deliver 20,000 genuinely affordable homes, overseen by a new public housing body which puts people before profit. Labour has failed in Greater Manchester, providing virtually no new affordable homes. I will end Labour’s developer rip off.

For too long, the failing Labour model has put the interests of developers first, the people of Manchester second, luxury flats first, and virtually non-existent affordable housing. I will do things differently. Affordable homes for people. If I am mayor, there will be much stricter lending rules, I will not hand over cash for luxury flats.

The Greens will start a housing revolution in Greater Manchester, real homes, not luxury rip off flats, for families, and house building and renovations of existing homes will kick start a new industrial revolution in Greater Manchester, creating thousands of new jobs and supporting the local economy.

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