London Needs 40,000 New Social Rented Homes A Year

London Tenants Federation (LTF) is calling for 40,000 new social rented homes to be built each year in London for the next 10 years to address the city’s housing crisis. In a statement, A positive future for social housing in London, published ahead of the Social Housing Green Paper, LTF call for the government to make social housing central to a radical shift in housing policy. Since 2005 average delivery rates for social rented housing in London have been below a tenth of what is needed. LTF, an alliance of democratic tenants and residents’ organisations in the capital, is calling on the government to provide sufficient grant funding, ringfenced for social housing, to address this shortfall within the next 10 years. Read more on 24housing.

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