Boris Johnson is formally to drop Ken Livingstone's 50 affordable housing target as part of an end-to-end review of the London Plan, to begin this week, writes Joey Gardiner. Johnson said during his campaign to become mayor that he did not think the 50 quota was the answer to the capital's affordable housing shortage. This week it became clear he intended to abandon the requirement. Livingston, the former mayor, introduced the affordability target for new homes in 2004. Although it has never been achieved, Livingstone argued that it formed a useful starting point for negotiations. However, David Lunts, executive director of policy and partnerships at the Greater London Authority (GLA), said: "Boris is against targets that are unnecessarily prescriptive and get in the way of good outcomes, as the housing target did."
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