Mayor says work will start on 20,000 new local-authority homes by 2024
Sadiq Khan has announced plans to double his previous London council housebuilding target, pledging to ensure work is started on 20,000 homes by 2024.
The London mayor said his decision came after he “smashed” the previous target to start 10,000 council homes in his first mayoral term, by the end of the 2021-22 financial year.
市长在3月份公布的数据显示，尽管在新冠肺炎危机期间出现了中断，但在2021年至2022年期间，市政厅资助的市政住宅开工了11061座，并声称自20世纪70年代以来，伦敦正在建造更多的市政住宅。
The Greater London Authority says that all but three of the 33 London borough now have active council housebuilding programmes, with Southwark starting 878 and Havering 593 in the last year alone.
然而，与Khan在市政住房建设方面的记录形成对比的是，他在住房建设方面的总体记录较为复杂，自2016年他当选以来，首都的住房建设产出出现波动，相对疲弱的伦敦市场和疫情加剧了这一情况。虽然在他当选后的第一年，新建了39560套住房，但到2021- 2022年，这一数字下降了6%，降至37183套。
Khan said City Hall was backing a “renaissance” in council homebuilding.
“I’m proud that we’re reversing the decades of decline in council homebuilding and that last year, more council homes were started than in any year since the 1970s, but I’m determined to go even further,” he said. “That’s why today I’ve set an ambitious unprecedented new council housebuilding target, pledging to start 20,000 new council homes by 2024.”
Earlier this year, London Assembly Conservatives accused the Labour mayor of presiding over “six years of failure” on housing, in which he had been given £9bn in funding to build 151,000 homes, of which just 70,000 had been started and 40,000 completed.
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