Khan Achieves Fewer Than 350 Affordable Housing Starts in 2025 So Far – Guido Fawkes

Khan Achieves Fewer Than 350 Affordable Housing Starts in 2025 So Far

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New figures released by the GLA this morning show Sadiq Khan managed a pitiful 347 affordable housing starts in the first three months of the year. He’s hardly bricking it…

Total affordable completions numbered only 876. Were the starts figures to stay at that level over the year fewer than one thousand affordable homes would be started in 2025/26. Last year’s figure was 3,991…

Don’t expect Khan to crow about hitting his targets – which have also been cut. He did so in previous years by pulling forward future construction projects into the statistics. Robert Colvile, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, tells Guido: “These figures are utterly disastrous. Both public and private housebuilding in London are in a state of collapse. A large part of that is down to the awful new Building Safety Regulator – but the affordable housing figures are also a stunning indictment of Sadiq Khan’s failure to build.” The deadline for the housing project is mid 2026 – expect a scramble to fill the figures just before then…