'This Won't Help': Sadiq Khan Plans to Slash London Affordable Housing Requirements for Developers

We should all be outraged that London has stopped building homes

Reducing the affordable threshold to 20% would be a recognition of economic reality

'This won't help': Sadiq Khan plans to slash London affordable housing requirements for developers

Critics say simply building more unaffordable homes won't solve the housing crisis, but the Mayor says house building in the capital needs a kickstart

Govt forced to water down affordable housing targets as London propert

The London property market is in crisis with “nothing like enough new homes being built”, forcing the government to water down targets for affordable housing, the cabinet minister in charge has told Sky News. Steve Reed, the housing secretary, and Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, made a major intervention in the housing market today with a package to reduce red tape introduced post-Grenfell for developers and slash the target for affordable …

Khan preparing to slash affordable homes target to kickstart housebuilding

Latest figures suggest builders began work on just 3,248 new private-sector homes in the first three months of 2025, reports Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter Sir Sadiq Khan (right) with deputy mayor Tom Copley (left) (credit GLA) Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan has insisted that building council homes is still of the utmost importance after it emerged that he is preparing to slash affordable housing requirements for developers. Khan and Ho…

Mayor says building council homes is “vital” amid calls to scrap housing cuts

The Mayor of London has insisted that building council homes is still of the utmost importance after it emerged that he is preparing to slash affordable housing requirements for developers. Sir Sadiq Khan and Housing Secretary Steve Reed are currently weighing up proposals to cut the required affordable homes ratio from 35per cent to 20per cent to stimulate housebuilding in the capital. London’s construction stagnation has been well-documented i…

Cutting affordable housing quotas is a slap in the face for Labour voters

If Labour is no longer in favour of building affordable housing, what exactly is the party for, asks James Ford Housebuilding in London has ground to a halt. Report after report, statistic after statistic has shown that the number of homes being started and completed in the capital is falling way below the government target of 88,000 new homes a year that is required. The latest report from the Centre for Policy Studies found that in the financi…