Healthy and sustainable homes We've started to roll out improvements our existing homes to keep them safe, warm and comfortable.
We'll spend over £14m this year on new kitchens, bathrooms, energy efficiency works, heating systems, external painting, boundary fences and major adaptations in partnership with Manchester City Council. The energy efficiency improvements are part of the Government's Warm Homes Programme . Read more.
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 2,250 families and 580 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 City Council's homelessness services to adapt and extend a property which has been matched to a family in temporary accommodation. We hope this model will be used to help more people across the city. We also lease homes to the council to use for temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness. 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. Since April, we've helped 77 tenants to rightsize. We may also be able to help tenants to clear rent arrears up to £2,500. Find out more about rightsizing here.
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