There has been a real drive amongst developers to build new apartment buildings here in Manchester, These skyscrapers can be hugely important in boosting the local economy, but not many of them are planning to.centre on creating affordable housing.
As such, we’ve hit the streets of Manchester to ask people whether they think that the changes to Manchester’s skyline will be a positive or negative thing for the city.
As such, we’ve hit the streets of Manchester to ask people whether they think that the changes to Manchester’s skyline will be a positive or negative thing for the city.
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00:00Hi I'm Theo and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester talking to people about skyscrapers
00:04and that's because Manchester's changing. It's been changing for a long time, in fact there's
00:07an argument that it never stops. However what we're seeing more and more recently is development
00:12of huge skyscrapers which massively impact the skyline of Manchester and also help build up the
00:17amount of accommodations that we've got here. Being a student's great in Manchester but we
00:20have to live miles out of the city in a house which is nice but when all our unis are in
00:25Manchester in the centre trekking every day getting the bus like so it's just unaffordable
00:30to live and and then because everywhere's expensive to live it boosts the price above
00:35doing all the other stuff like getting out shopping everything's stupidly expensive.
00:40As Manchester develops and more things are just going to hike up in price even more it's going
00:44to be already like to just go into town you can't there's not very much you can do without spending
00:49money and like probably the northern quarters probably one of the only places you can actually
00:53sit down without spending money in Manchester. Just you know the kind of it's not catering for
00:59all it's catering more for the rich people which isn't good but like I think for the actual city
01:03itself it's not a terrible thing but for the population as a whole it's not a great thing.
01:09I feel like a lot of that you see on TikTok all the time there's a lot of like
01:14new places being built and then it's like people like oh look for an apartment with me and it's
01:18like oh the my like non-negotiable is that the apartment has to have a gym and that's just like
01:26well most people can't even access that like for someone who is unemployed at the moment as well
01:32like it's very difficult for me to even access any sort of exercise that isn't just walking along
01:37the canal. I just feel like there's like families out there that's proper struggling to get by like
01:42they have to get to food banks and like struggle to eat and like can't afford to buy a house and
01:48then they're just building skyscrapers to put rich people and I just don't really
01:51apparently get behind it. So what do you think? Feel free to comment below
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