Healthy and sustainable homes We’re partnering with Next Energy to improve the energy efficiency of 1500 homes as part of a successful bid via GMCA to Wave 3 of the Government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund. This is part of our goal for all homes to reach an EPC C rating before 2030. The first phase of the two-year programme has started in Chorlton.
Rightsizing We work with Manchester City Council and other housing providers across the city to support tenants to move to smaller, easier-to- manage homes freeing up larger properties for families in need. So far city wide 135 households have been helped to move. We may also be able to help tenants to clear rent arrears up to £2,500. More on rightsizing.
Housing need Our annual turnover of homes remains low at under 200. Housing need across the city remains very high with over 12,000 households in need (priority bands 1-3). Demand for our homes also remains very high with an average of 900 bids on every three-bed home that became available last year. Homelessness: Over 2,200 families and 650+
single people are living in temporary accommodation in Manchester due to
homelessness. Alongside letting all our homes through Manchester Move, we also support wider homelessness projects. We’re currently working with Manchester’s City Council's homelessness services to adapt and extend a property which has been matched to a family in temporary accommodation. We also lease homes to the council to use for temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness. In Trafford, we’re working with the council to move people living in temporary accommodation and bed and breakfasts to new social rent homes at our Warwick Road South scheme.
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