A Housing First Greater Manchester
Housing First is part of the GMCA’s pioneering approach to delivering public services and tackling the problems that are hampering wellbeing and economic growth. It is based on the philosophy that good health, good education, and good jobs cannot come without a good, permanent home.
Our Vision
The security of a good home is a fundamental foundation for us all to achieve our ambitions in life – our safe space for growing up, getting on and growing old.
The housing crisis means that too many of us don’t have that solid base, and our bold aspirations for the future won’t happen unless we fix that. So in Greater Manchester, we are putting Housing First.
Our ambition is for everyone in Greater Manchester to live in a home they can afford that is safe, secure, accessible healthy and environmentally sustainable – a healthy home for all by 2038.
The Housing First Unit
The Housing First Unit has been established to lead GM’s work to deliver our vision for a healthy home for all by 2038. It will lead and coordinate action, promote the Housing First principles, provide capacity and advocate for the radical reforms needed to solve the housing crisis. It will tackle the roots of the housing crisis by:
- Increasing housing supply to deliver the homes our residents need.
- Driving up housing standards to improve the quality and suitability of our existing homes and letting practices.
- Supporting Greater Manchester residents to live well by putting housing at the heart of what we do.
Contact the Housing First Unit
Supporting access to retaining a healthy home
Increasing housing supply
- Places For Everyone
- Net Zero Design Guidance
- Greater Manchester’s Growth Locations (external website)
- Greater Manchester's Integrated Pipeline (external website)
- Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund
Driving up standards
- Greater Manchester Good Landlord Charter (external website)
- Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG)
- Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF)
- Your Home, Better