Approached for comment, a spokeswoman for the mayor said: “The disastrous legacy of the previous Government has meant a slump in housebuilding across the country, but there are welcome green shoots of recovery in these figures, with an increase in City Hall-backed affordable housing starts and completions compared to last year.
However, just 3,026 homes have started construction in total, meaning that the mayor is only 13 per cent of the way towards hitting the lower end of the reduced target - having now used up more than half the time available since funding for the programme was signed off by the Government in July 2023.
The result of this success is that, even in these tough times, affordable housing completions are 50 per cent higher in just the first nine months of this year than what the previous mayor delivered during his entire last year in office.
According to the latest data, construction started on only 902 new affordable homes - under the mayor’s programme and across the whole of Greater London - between October and December of last year.
The mayor’s office blamed the programme’s sluggish progress on “the disastrous legacy of the previous Government”, adding that Sir Sadiq is “determined to turbocharge the delivery of housing”.
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