Andy Burnham vows to end housing crisis within a decade, building 10,000 homes

Andy Burnham has vowed to end the housing crisis within a decade, promising to build a 'new generation' of 10,000 council homes by 2028. In the first announcement following his 'emphatic' re-election last week, the Greater Manchester mayor said he would stop 'boring' people about buses and put housing 'centre stage' in his third term.

He said: "We can't keep talking about a housing crisis in this country without getting stuck into the detail of what it means to fix it. We start by setting a new ambition for the city-region to fix the housing crisis within a decade. This includes identifying brownfield sites where these new homes can be built. Mr Burnham said that Greater Manchester's land commission - a body featuring all of the major public land holders in the city-region, including the NHS and government departments - will be asked to free up land to build those homes 'as quickly as possible'.

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