This week, Greater Manchester became the first UK city-region to commit to importing a Housing First philosophy from Finland. Here’s what that means in practice. 🧵 1/5 https://x.com/AndyBurnhamGM/status/1835246853723488485?t=zDjk7XynaSlCkQn4CCGMig&s=19

Channel
Andy Burnham
@AndyBurnhamGM
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
3subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002137037498 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AndyBurnhamGM |
| Description | Mayor of Greater Manchester (Labour & Co-operative) |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 13 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AndyBurnhamGM |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 15:32 | 3 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:38 | 3 | first reading |
Engagement
16 posts held, back to 29 August 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 19 September 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- 32
- Links
- 14
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 13 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Recent posts
Back in 2017, around 300 people were sleeping rough in GM every night. Many had been out for months. The number of people being forced onto our streets is still too high but, thanks to #BedEveryNight, we can give an offer to everyone. 4/5
Ahead of this winter, we are looking to expand #BedEveryNight to 600+ places. We can only do that with your continued generous support for #GMMayorsCharity. Here’s my September salary donation.👇🏻 If you can help, please do so here > gmmayorscharity.org.uk Thank you 🙏🏻 5/5
After Grenfell, we need a sea change in the way the country thinks about housing. That’s why GM is following Finland’s lead and becoming the first UK city-region to adopt a Housing First philosophy.👇🏻 https://x.com/AndyBurnhamGM/status/1833766178885443829?t=aQE8eamsNBZdK-y35eHbsA&s=19
The results are in: Andy Burnham - 1.55.24 Jimmy Burnham - 1.57.10 George Cathey - 1.46.29 Adam Hitchen - 1.45.35 Mathieu Lapaz-Wade - 1.39.26 So, all under 2hrs - but a couple of minutes over our 9 hour target. Hopefully still worthy of a donation! justgiving.com/page/andy-burn…
On the start line of the #Great_Run! Running for my dad and all the wonderful staff of #wearenugent who look after him and so many others so well. If you can show them some support, please do so here! justgiving.com/page/andy-burn…
This says a lot that is fantastic about our country. We should be celebrating it more.
It’s very unfair how people with least money pay more for energy and transport because they can’t get the discount from direct debits or paying upfront. Thanks to GM’s credit unions, we’re fixing this by letting people buy our new £800 Bee Bus Annual via £15 weekly payments. 👍🏻
BREAKING: We have reached agreement with our 14 credit unions on an innovative new way of cutting the cost of public transport. From January, people will be able to buy annual passes via weekly payments to a credit union - saving almost 5 a week, £20 a month and £240 a year. 👍🏻
Today is a day for all political parties to commit to a #GrenfellLaw - enshrining in UK law the basic right to a good, safe home. 💚 #ForeverInOurHearts #HousingFirst
Tomorrow, to mark four months until the arrival of the #BeeNetwork in the south of GM, we will make a major announcement about further reductions to the cost of public transport for our residents. 👀🐝
Night buses return to GM from today after a long absence. In truth, we should be bringing them back all over the UK. If our cities are to lead the way to the growth the Government wants to see, much better public transport is needed everywhere. #BeeNetwork
Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @AndyBurnhamGM. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 1,420,600 of 1,481,217entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Andy Burnham” (@AndyBurnhamGM), 3 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AndyBurnhamGM.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.