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All Members Meeting - July 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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...