Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest
Developers will be allowed to build lower numbers of affordable homes and claim higher subsidies to build them under plans being drawn up by the government to solve London’s housebuilding crisis.
Steve Reed, the housing secretary, and Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, will announce the package within weeks, in what officials say will be a time-limited intervention designed to stall the sudden drop in new building in the capital.
The plans, details of which are still being negotiated, have been welcomed by developers but condemned by homelessness charities who say it will increase the record numbers of people who are homeless in the UK.
A spokesperson for Khan said: “The mayor is working with the housing secretary on a package of reforms to boost housebuilding in the capital.
