Boris Johnson is under pressure to reveal why he is using
money intended to help house the capital's poorest families to fund new homes
for wealthier residents. Johnson, who
caused controversy with his comments over welfare reform when he said there
would be "no Kosovo-style social cleansing" of the city's low income
households on his watch, has diverted £93.3 million from affordable housing
programmes to the Mayor's Housing Covenant, which aims to help middle income
earners into homeownership. Now the
chair of the London Assembly's housing committee, Darren Johnson AM, has written to
the Mayor demanding to know why. While social and affordable tenants earn on average less than £13,000 per annum the covenant will deliver affordable home ownership option for households earning up to £74,000. Read
more on the Housing Excellence website.
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