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GMTU NEWS

  • All Members Meeting - July 2022

    3rd Aug, 2022 Allison Fewtrell

    We had a vibrant and successful All Members Meeting last Saturday. 25 members attended the event at Methodist Central Hall to find out more about GMTU, our strategy, vote on proposals and...

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  • NYC Tenants - Lessons for the Fightback

    9th Jun, 2022 Isaac Rose

    Last year, London-based housing writer, researcher and organiser Glyn Robbins spent six months living in the Bronx, learning about New York City's organised tenants movement...

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  • GMTU on the March

    4th Apr, 2022 Chris Moore

    We attended the People's Assembly Cost of Living Demo on April 2nd - a 'rolling rally' where the march was interspersed with stopping points...

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  • Solidarity with CHEP workers

    4th Apr, 2022 Vik Chechi-Ribeiro

    At our Committee meeting in March we voted unanimously to support the CHEP workers in their dispute. Running for over 17 weeks...

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  • Urban Flop

    22nd Mar, 2022 Allison Fewtrell

    Tenants living in the 'Chips building' in New Islington got in touch with us recently asking for our help...

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  • Manchester City Fans Foodbank Support Affiliate to GMTU

    27th Jan, 2022 Isaac Rose

    For over a year GMTU has had a working partnership with Manchester City FFS. Joint work has included outreach efforts on match days...

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  • Young Black Lives in the Inner City

    27th Jan, 2022 Discussion

    Last year, Greater Manchester Tenants Union and Repeater Books co-hosted an online discussion on the themes of Joy White's book 'Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City'...

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  • Student housing: from ghost towns to abandonment?

    19th Jan, 2022 Nigel de Noronha

    In the first of series of articles examining the racialised impact of student accommodation in the wards of South Manchester, Nigel de Noronha examines the background to the growth in...

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  • New Report Tracks Impact of Short-Term Lets in Manchester Neighbourhoods

    14th Dec, 2021 Isaac Rose

    The report, written by academics, journalists and members of Greater Manchester Tenants Union and Greater Manchester Housing Action,

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  • On the Verge

    10th Nov, 2021 Sandy Broadhurst

    Everyone knows there's a crisis. We're short of homes, be it good affordable places to rent or Traveller sites; there aren't enough good landlords; too many evictions and a legal system biased against the tenant.

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  • Annual General Meeting 2021

    6th Oct, 2021 Isaac Rose

    No need to remember to unmute or worry about your dodgy internet connection - pop down to the Jain Centre in Longsight on Saturday, October 23rd for our 2021 AGM.

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  • No more 'Extend and Pretend'. Rent debt cancellation now!

    6th June, 2021 Allison Fewtrell

    Early last summer we realised tenants were falling into arrears as a direct result of the crisis. GMTU along with other tenant organisations, charities and unions...

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  • Renters' Reforms - Queen's Speech 2021

    18th May, 2021 Allison Fewtrell

    We received a whopping 158 page document - “Queens Speech 2021 Pack” which contained quotes from the speech and the government's comments for each.

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  • Housing Question Time

    5th May, 2021 Isaac Rose

    We invited four of the candidates for Greater Manchester mayor to a Housing Question Time event and sent them the manifesto to read over in advance of the event.

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  • GM Renters Manifesto

    9th Apr, 2021 Isaac Rose

    For the last 6 months, renters across Greater Manchester have been coming together to discuss what the most pressing issues are for us today in the lead up to the Mayoral elections.

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  • Introducing the Greater Manchester Tenants Union

    22nd Sept, 2020 Isaac Rose

    Tenants Union UK is changing. From this autumn we will be focussing our organisational efforts on housing issues in Greater Manchester. We will work to strengthen and...

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GMTU in the News

  • Priced out of Moss Side by stag dos and ravers - life on the wrong side of the area's huge Airbnb boom MEN, 16 January 2022
  • "We're stronger together" - MCFC Fans Foodbank Support launch new initiative at City v Wolves MEN, 11 December 2021
  • Left behind in one of Hulme's last tower blocks, the 'community of ghosts' facing a tidal wave of change MEN, 27 March 2021
  • Greater Manchester's mayor should have rent control powers, say Labour, Lib Dem and Green election candidates MEN, 29 April 2021
  • Hulme tenants launch Crowdfunder for professional planning advice to oppose student flat development The Meteor, 23 December 2020
  • Manchester housing campaigners join forces to fight predicted Covid-19 evictions 'tsunami' The Meteor, 11 August 2020
  • Could hundreds of Rochdale's social rent homes be saved by a regeneration rethink? The Meteor, 11 May 2020
  • Tenants Union warn government's proposed eviction freeze just 'delays the threat' The Meteor, 29 March 2020
  • Tenant rights campaigners victorious over government plans to scrap 'no-fault evictions' The Meteor, 16 April 2019
  • 'They will have to drag me out': The view from the famous tower blocks facing demolition MEN, 24 February 2019
  • The social housing being sold off on Rightmove while homelessness soars MEN, 25 October 2018
  • Andy Burnham to hear of tenants' struggles at Manchester Renters' Forum The Meteor, 8 February 2018

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