How Sadiq Khan plans to boost 'genuinely affordable' housing

摘要

During his victorious London mayoral election campaign earlier this year, Sadiq Khan promised to make 50 per cent of all new homes in London 'genuinely affordable'. However, by June Khan's deputy mayor for housing had already adjusted that position, saying that this figure was, instead, a 'long-term strategic target'. Some see that as a broken election promise, others a pragmatic side-step based on the realities of development in the capital. Either way, two recently released consultation documents shed new light on the new mayor's approach to providing affordable housing in the capital.