Tenants need to join forces across Manchester neighbourhoods. This was the key message arising from Social Homes for Manchester’s first film screening and campaign workshop at St Cuthbert’s church in Miles Platting last Tuesday evening.
MPCAN’s (Miles Platting Community and Age-friendly Network) first quarterly network meeting of 2025 doubled up as a film screening and campaign workshop for Social Homes for Manchester, the first in a programme of events that will take place across the city throughout the year.
What is the City but the People? is a short film co-created by two inspiring women leaders from Moss Side and Wythenshawe to raise awareness about the urgency of the housing crisis across the city.
MPCAN were the first coalition to host the SH4M campaign to screen the documentary and raise awareness with their local community about easy and urgent actions they themselves can take to support the collective effort to get more social rent homes delivered across the city. A key focus of the current work is the new Local Plan, which will be published for an 8-week consultation in Summer 2025 by Manchester City Council.
You can download Social Homes for Manchester’s info handouts below:
Planning can be very technical and boring! But if you were ever going to engage in planning this is the policy to wake up to! The Local Plan will determine how much housing, what types of housing, and where housing will be developed across the city for at least the next ten years.
Local councillors Carmine Grimshaw and June Hitchen were in attendance and promised to add their pledges in support of our headline campaign ask, which is for 30% of all new housing developments of 10 homes or more to be homes for social rent.
You can view the full list of which councillors have pledged their support here.
You can invite Social Homes for Manchester to come and host a film screening and workshop in your local area – just email [email protected].
