Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes About 40% of £10bn from Affordable Homes Programme will now go on types of housing such as sheltered and shared ownership The Guardian - UK · Aug 24
London must have more affordable homes for families, Sadiq Khan told The social housing system is failing to keep pace with increasing demand in the capital, according to a new report Evening Standard · Jan 29
Replacement Bakerloo line trains can be 'explored' thanks to Budget, says Sadiq Khan Mr Khan said the Budget was ‘the best’ he’d heard as mayor, but critics say he has ‘quietly dropped’ his biggest asks Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024
Sadiq Khan scheme built just 71 affordable homes in three months and needs to start 22,000 more to hit 2026 target Tories acuse London mayor of ‘unacceptably low’ levels of affordable housebuilding in capital The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2024
Tories demand Labour Government put Sadiq Khan in 'special measures' over affordable housing Slow progress on the mayor’s affordable homes programme has been blamed by his team on “the disastrous inheritance from the last Government” Evening Standard · Aug 13, 2024
'Housing in Rochdale needs investment': Andy Burnham asks why £1m pulled following Awaab Ishak death Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, which owns and manages the Freehold estate where Awaab Ishak lived, has been stripped of a £1m government grant after the housing association was found to have failed to fix the mould which led to the two-year-old's death Manchester Evening News · Nov 24, 2022
Affordable homes ‘depressingly unattainable’ and attempts to fix housing crisis ‘not good enough’, say MPs Fewer homes could be completed than currently forecast because of building cost inflation and shortages of materials and labour, National Audit Office warns The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022