Andy Burnham: I Don’t Want People Priced Out Of Manchester
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, has had a very good year so far.
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 a Labour Government in Westminster.
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What did you think of Andy Burnham's comments?
They already are, my mate lives in solford and the new flats next to his are 725k, for a tiny 3 bed flat!
Exactly! This was well underway 15 years ago
Then levelling up has been achieved.
Love manchester! Proper working-class city with genuinely friendly people.
I remember getting rejected from every university I applied to in London but I got into MMU. Typical kid from a working-class midlands town family and the first person in my family to go to uni. Great place to live, this was before all the fancy new skyscrapers. I lived just in front of Whitworth park with the amazing Whitworth gallery on my literal doorstep. The area was well developed with cycle lanes, bus routes, curry mile 2 minutes away and two incredible universities on one street, with great pubs, restaurants and green spaces (Oxford Road) When the Manchester central library was redeveloped and opened I was the 2nd person through the doors, arguably the best library in the country (that and Birmingham's) The music room was amazing, I used to spend hours in there learning music and wrote my dissertation in the central round reading room! I look back so fondly on those years. It's a city that is big and well developed enough to feel like a grand new start in life, yet also manages to keep its identity and be very communal and accessible for all no mater their income, or beliefs, or whatever.
Something that is impossible for a major international city like London that is always changing and too large and fragmented to feel like 'your city'.
Funnily enough I live in London now, ironically right near the uni that I received a rejection letter from. The area is over congested, renting prices high, and there's very few green spaces, baffles me that such a world renowned university is in an area like this, it's ripe for re-development.
Couldn't imagine going to uni in this city now that I live here.
Shout out to the Alma Mater
Used to be not so much anymore even the "working class" areas are insanely expensive to rent unless it's social housing which you can kiss goodbye to if your a single male with no children 🤷🏻♂️
There's property construction going on all over the place but it's ALWAYS for obscenely priced luxury apartments. Affordable, sustainable building needs to take place. Local first-time buyers, particularly renters, need first dibs on properties rather than parasitic buy-to-let landlords, and landlords themselves, particularly those with more than one rental property, need to be prevented from buying more and taxed out of their f cking ars s.
The housing crisis it’s incredibly complex. House prices in Greater Manchester are already unsustainable, but those prices go hand in hand with huge levels of vacant properties! Crazy! I think we have to bring in properly affordable regulated tenancies (that are not based on market rents or give rent officers more latitude), manage house building and force property owners of vacant properties to sell their property or rent it out at an affordable rent!
Phwooarrr, landing on New Order. Good taste, Andy
That is a joke , Manchester city Council allowed billionaire builders to build luxury skyscraper apartments built all over the city with london rents and given 745 million of tax payers money to do it reported in the MEN 😂😂😂😂
building dense and taller housing in the urban core is how you get to an affordable city. Vicky Spratt is a moron
Exactly...this is a joke
He's good at pulling the wool over our eyes, but yes, millions of taxpayers' money into one developer! And public transport they are targeting, they have investments in everything that we don't know..
Turned into mini london yuppiville years ago. Doesn't help he appointed a millionaire property tsar as a homelessness "expert" . I lived their for years, you couldn't pay me to live there again.
he says as the only building projects that are going on in manchester are luxury high rises, or high end student accomodation. Rents have gone through the roof with more and more people moving to manchester every year with no affordable housing being built. The area's where people do live are being neglected also. The tram network also needs major expansion.
Wouldn't say the student accomodation was high end, even the new builds are vile, the space is like that on knackered cross channel ferry cabins with a window, but dirtier. Outsides look new but the design is poor
Manchester - or at least Greater Manchester - has some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. Its very own stockbroker-belt lies in Bowdon, Hale, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow etc. This is a sign of the city’s success and should be applauded. Years ago, anyone with half an ounce of common-sense would have left Manchester for jobs elsewhere. However, in the last 15 years Manchester has rebounded. The problem is that as the city attracts more graduate-level employees in higher paying jobs it leads to more people chasing homes in affluent areas. Manchester is building hordes of city centre apartments but needs to address the needs of aspirational families who want 2 kids and a dog.
Alderley Edge & Wilmslow are both in Cheshire East & not part of Greater Manchester at all. Half an hour on the train to the city centre & much less to the airport.
@CM73878 those areas were always affluent, so there is really nothing to applaud. All that is happening in MCR, is that people are being priced out of most areas, more non Mancs are moving in and too many people are overloading Trafford trying to get their kids in the local grammars.
@@iaing9028 I think that’s a very small point. Half an hour to a city centre is neither here nor there. And both have the majority of their residents deriving their incomes from Manchester
@@CM73878 , the original poster said these are wealthy areas in Greater Manchester, there is a boundary & these areas aren’t in GM, much the same as wealthy areas in Surrey & Berkshire have people who work in London, but have zero say on London issues.
All these areas don’t get a vote on who is the Mayor & other issues.
stockbroker-belt don't make me laugh lol bar footballers & a few business holders Hale, Alderley Edge are old money Bowdon & Wilmslow middle age professionals
This guy lays it on thick. He's full of it. I'm a born and bread Manc and the place is not what it was. Down wi thi kidz Andy loves nothing more than his developer pals. Those who build glass palaces no one can afford apart from the well healed. All whilst the streets are full of homeless people. Manchester needs an innovative affordable housing plan, not £800m developments like Mayfields or any other vanity project.
It's already happening Andy
I went to UMIST in the late 70,s early 80,s and housing was a big problem back then . Lots of availability but in shockingly bad conditions. No central heating , damp and moldy so it was grim until I went into school owned flats . I was there with my son about 8 weeks ago and the place was still grim . I got into uni with 6 o levels and an OND and I can assure you I was up against way smarter A level boys . I was always struggling against academic probation….
If Andy Burnham doesn’t want people priced out of Manchester maybe he could pressure MCC and Homes England in removing all the Grenfell cladding that is still on thousands of properties across Manchester City centre and is stalling the centres housing market.
He's already failed in that task, and did so years ago. I used to live in Manchester, went to Uni there felt it was the greatest city in the UK. Now when I visit it's clear it's in steep decline, massive chasm opening up between income groups. Piccadilly area absolutely shocking.
We've got more and more student blocks going up, more non Mancs in the city, and people already priced out. Plus, where's all this level up money? How can MCR charge a tourist tax when there's very little for tourists to do beyond eat, shop, concerts and football? How about more museums, galleries and cultural hubs?!
Building student accommodation is actually a good thing for local residents as students - supported by their families - can often afford higher rents than local people and their demand increases the cost of housing locally. The fewer student flats the higher the rent for homes for others.
@@CM73878 you're not a Manc are you? Tell that to the residents of Fallowfield dealing with students leaving all their rubbish behind when they go home for summer and a largely transient community with no stake in the area who don't care about making the area a decent place to live. The unis benefit from the students and the council. It does very little for ordinary Mancunians.
@@rewghob No, but I worked there. 20 years ago nothing would have persuaded me to relocate to Manchester as it was such a miserable place. However, now I would give it serious consideration.
@@CM73878real mancs are having the complete opposite experience to you we have already been priced out of our neighbourhoods and as for social housing you've got absolutely zero chance as a single male with no children
Planning permission should go to cheaper housing only. Building a load of luxury apartments is a waste of land unless you are a property developer. Most of us are not
Housing prices are terrible all over- there does need to be regulation. Please.
Regulating prices would only mean the market price would be too low to balance supply and demand; ergo nobody moves out of their existing flat as it's cheaper than they could get if they found a new one, so there aren't any flats available to buy or rent for newcomers. It's why rents are still massively higher in New York than London despite having rent controlled apartments over there. The only solution is to make it easier to build new flats through the planning system which is what they've said they're doing.
Open borders
Affordable housing
Pick one
We currently have neither so...
When are we going to see a fast rail link between Liverpool and Manchester, and then on to Leeds? This will help people to get to work quicker and have a choice on being able to live in Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, Huddersfield or Leeds but work in Manchester, or Liverpool, or Leeds…
Typical, no mention of other northern cities like Newcastle. That is why little sympathy for scrapping HS2 was felt in the Northeast for people in Manchester, because comments like this ignores other cities in the north.
1:24 because rent control is a failed policy that murders new housing supply. The ONLY way to get out of a housing crisis is to build MORE housing, market rate, and council housing, and everything across the board. Manchester has a 1.5% vacancy rate for homeowners and a 5% rental vacancy rate, they absolutely could use more housing supply!
The country has enough houses,just to many people.
ey we probably need a lot of people like this actually pushing Starmer and his TBI bosses into actually doin somethin more than austerity 2.0
Get a grip on immigration then.
Been priced out already finding it really difficult to move back even the so called rough areas are insanely expensive for private rentals these days and as for council housing it's virtually non existent if your a single male with no kids and a limited income the man talks absolute 💩
"I Don’t Want People Priced Out. . . . . . . but I do want infinity immigration"
Pick one.
The elephant in the room that no one likes to mention.
Andy said nothing about the 7 million official or probably much higher immigrants into uk over last ten years which has caused housing shortage
Tories caused the problem mate not "immigrants".
Starker sycophant, disappointingly.
King of the north 💪
lol Manchester is barely in the North, Leeds, Newcastle, York, Durham, Hull, Sunderland and Carlisle are in the North.
None of them places are in the North when put next to Scotland.. they barley in the Midlands...
@@SaulidSnake North I'm afraid.
Remove the word "Dont".
Well its abit late for that Andy.
Late for what?
@@bbrs925late for it not becoming London - this has already happened. People have been forced out and the city has been turned grey. Social clensing. Manchester was a threat to estabblishment. Not any more. This process started over 15 years ago we are in the same time line. Media city. Pomona. Oxford Road redevelopment. Manchester Int. Festival. Its a few rich people bullying around the workers. Peel Holdings.
@@bbrs925I'd say his comment makes it pretty clear what he means why the need to elaborate??
I'm from a town which had a Tory MP, first in 100 years. He got more funding (40 Million) in 4 years than 100 years of any tenure of a Labour MP.
Scrapping Leveling up is code word for "nahhh don't worry about them they'll vote for us next time and we don't need to do shit all". This Idea of a Labour Utopia is city based and city based only, outlying towns just get left to rot under Labour....last time they literally dismantled my local hospital and sold off the land leaving 120k of people with no emergency and just very basic health care..."travel 20 miles mate".....surprisingly they didn't have that in their leaflet.
When did this hospital get sold off?
Thick as 2 short planks ☝️