Mayor says London affordable housing target met

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he has met his own housebuilding target for affordable new homes in the capital. He said 63,817 affordable homes were completed between 2015-16 and 2022-23 and that 116,000 affordable homes were started during that time. Mayor Khan has met his target by including figures from the last year of previous mayor Boris Johnson's term in office in 2015-16 when construction of 7,189 affordable homes got under way. Work started on a record 25,658 affordable homes last year, up from 18,840 in 2021/22. Greenwich and Ealing were the best performing boroughs in 2022-23. Each recorded more than 2,000 affordable homes started either by the council or housing associations

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