2018 Manchester Fellow Reflects on Her Summer
2018 Manchester Fellow
Given my conviction that housing should be a basic human right, the timing of my work in Greater Manchester couldn’t have been any better. Greater Manchester’s newly elected Mayor, Andy Burnham, is actively working to address Manchester’s growing homelessness crisis. Since 2010, some estimate that the number of people sleeping on the streets has gone up 600%. However, much is being done to combat that. The mayor’s goal is to end street sleeping by 2020. Under his leadership, Greater Manchester is running a pilot of a Housing First program which could help house over 500 homeless people as well as a Social Impact Bond which could help 200 homeless people.
During my time with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, my main project was to put together a report on the extent of homelessness across the ten local authorities that comprise Greater Manchester.