Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said a 50% affordable housing legacy from the 2012 Olympic games would create a “ghetto” which would make the private homes unattractive for affluent home buyers.
Wandsworth Council has announced an advice day for first time buyers and key workers looking to own their own home. The ‘Open the Door’ event takes place on Thursday, October 16 from 2pm to 8pm in the Civic Suite, Wandsworth High Street.
Councils should be able to buy homes on the open market for use as social housing in an effort to rescuing the housing market, according to Barking and Dagenham Council.
The Left List will launch its party political broadcast tomorrow ahead of transmission on ITV1 at 6.25pm and BBC1 at 6.55pm.
The contest between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson looks set to take a negative turn later today when Mr Johnson publishes a new report called ‘Ken’s Broken Promises’.
Ken Livingstone was in Tower Hamlets this morning to launch his housing policies which include a re-committment of his policy that 50% of all new housing in London should be affordable.
Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson will unveil his housing and planning manifesto at the Royal Institute of British Architects later today.
Ken Livingstone yesterday hailed ‘the largest’ number of new homes to be built in the for 30 years.