Rents are at a record high and value for money has never been so low.
Salford has become one of the most expensive places to live in Greater Manchester, where average rents have risen by a record £140 in the past year alone. At the same time, mortgage increases are pushing more and more working families to the brink.
This can’t go on. We need a sustainable housing policy that delivers for sustainable communities.
This a scandal at national and local level. The mortgage premium's failings are for all to see, but lurking under the radar is the disastrous mis-management of Salford’s property sector. A race to bottom on standards and a sky’s-the-limit ethos for tax receipts in Salford City Council's coffers.
The Council allows new apartment blocks to be built with no affordable housing in them. Developers are allowed to syphon off millions in profits whilst we are priced out of our homes
The Council allows people to asset bank property. Owning a property with no-one living there is ridiculous during a housing crisis.
The Council doesn’t prevent entire apartment blocks falling into buy-to-let hands and impacting the property market.
The Council is failing to conduct adequate oversight on the building of the very apartment blocks they are so keen to give planning permission for.
The Liberal Democrats believe in sustainable and affordable housing, where people have the right to live in vibrant communities with full amenities accessible to them and their families.
We want to see appropriate infrastructure, services and amenities in place for current and future developments. We want to achieve this by:
Liberal Democrats have long fought to give tenants more security and protect them from unfair rent hikes – including longer tenancies of three years or more, with fair annual rent increases built-in, to give renters certainty. That fight is more important now than ever.
We're bringing our national campaign to abolish no-fault evictions to Salford, to stop landlords threatening to evict their tenants, extending the length of tenancies and ensuring rent can only increase by a fair amount each year.