The mayor of Greater Manchester wants a northern housebuilding revolution with rent control powers, young people trained up for local industries – and New Order on the decks
In May, he won his third successive term with 420,749 votes, almost two thirds of those available in the race. And now, for the first time in his mayoral career, the former MP for Leigh is working alongside aBurnham, 54, looks elated, pauses and smiles. “We were in a dark tunnel and at times it was hard to see where things were going. Everything has felt a bit broken like we were going backwards. And now, all of a sudden, we’ve sprung out of that.
This reference to the former government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Act is as acerbic as Burnham can get while riding so high. “It’s like… you doth protest too much,” he continues. “You can’t claim you’re levelling up just because you’ve renamed a government department.” His charter sets out good practices and will also provide funding for landlords to retrofit their properties and improve accessibility for disabled people.policy, which allows council tenants to buy their homes at a discount on market value and contributed to an enormous loss of
Burnham, who has implemented a housing first approach in his patch wants a “strengthened”in the first King’s Speech. “There does need to be reform, including to rents because rents are too high,” he adds. “There needs to be more democratic control over housing as a whole.”
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