Council-run housing firm could build 2,000 new affordable homes - but critics condemn town hall's 'abject failure' to build more sooner
control over rent levels to better meet the needs of those on housing benefits.Manchester council is hoping to deliver 32,000 new homes by 2025, including 6,400 affordable properties for social rent, affordable rent or shared ownership.But so far only 13,259 new homes have been built in the city since April 2015, and just 1,514 of these - around 25 pc - are classed as affordable.Coun Suzanne Richards, executive member for housing and regeneration, told an executive meeting on Wednesday: “The supply of affordable housing in the city has been increasing year on year but not at a rate that will meet our current and rightly ambitious target.“The economic impacts of Covid on development have yet to be fully understood, but it is likely for some