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Manchester Social Housing Commission
Published: May 2026
The Executive Summary of the final report of the Manchester Social Housing Commission (July 2024-December 2025). The Commission’s final report sets out the substantive case for an acceleration of building sustainable social rent homes, presents the key recommendations and assesses progress achieved to date, and reflects on the process followed by the Commission, creating an argument for better public participation in policy making.
Published: May 2026
The final report of the Manchester Social Housing Commission (July 2024-December 2025). This final report draws on the full Commission process, incorporating key findings from all our publications as well as wider experiences and ideas shared by visiting speakers, through testimonies submitted as evidence to the Commission, and from local community teams and our Community Commissioners. We have also drawn from our responses to the wide range of local and national Government consultations.
Published: March 2026
This report is about the opportunity for additional, and more diverse, forms of social housing provision in Manchester, as well as the additional benefits that community-led housing can bring to the provision of social housing. Community-led approaches provide an opportunity to build social cohesion and healthy lives as well as bricks and mortar (or timber)
homes.
Published: October 2025
Everyone should be able to live in a home that is free of cold, damp and mould, fire risks, trip hazards and disrepair. As the government finalises its new Decent Homes Standard for the social and private rental sectors, our policy brief proposes five measures that would strengthen regulation, rights and enforcement in relation to rental housing conditions, and transform the power of tenants to not only gain improvements to their homes and environments, but to influence the wider politics of decent, safe, secure and affordable housing.
Published: May 2025
This report sets out five key areas to reform to address the barriers to delivering the homes we need, including boosting funding, unlocking land, reusing existing buildings, financial innovation and the transformation of supply chains.
The policy directions outlined in the brief provide a clear route forward for the financing of sustainable homes for social rent in England.
Policy Brief 2: How to fund and deliver sustainable homes for social rent
Published: April 2025
The second policy brief from the Manchester Social Housing Commission outlines a clear route forward for financing sustainable homes for social rent in England.
Policy Brief 1: Why we need sustainable homes for social rent: An agenda for change
Published: March 2025
This first policy brief from the Manchester Social Housing Commission stems from our forthcoming report about the scale and nature of the housing crisis in England and its specific trajectory in the Manchester context. It summarises the report’s main findings and the urgent national policy actions needed.
Report 1: Manchester's Housing Crisis in Context: Why we need sustainable homes for social rent
Published: November 2024
This report provides a baseline evidence review of the scale and nature of the housing crisis in England and its specific trajectory in the Manchester context. It makes the case for higher levels of sustainable social rented housing delivery, including retrofitting existing homes in the City of Manchester to address the housing, climate, and cost of living crises.
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