{"id":220824,"date":"2025-10-23T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220824\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:57:10","slug":"london-affordable-housing-quota-reduced-from-35-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220824\/","title":{"rendered":"London affordable housing quota reduced from 35% to 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022-2023, there were 25,000 affordable homes built and last year just under 4,000 were built, according to City Hall figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor said: &#8220;Homes being built in London have dried up and it&#8217;s a nationwide problem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not willing to stand by when that happens and so working with the government we&#8217;ve announced today a temporary short-term package of emergency measures to kickstart house building in London, which means more affordable homes that Londoners desperately need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a release, City Hall said that the scale of the housing crisis in recent years means &#8220;emergency action is needed to get building moving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said that a &#8220;perfect storm due to a combination of spiralling construction costs, high interest rates, the legacy of the previous government, impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, regulatory blockers and wider economic conditions,&#8221; had created an urgent need for more housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022-2023, there were 25,000 affordable homes built and last year just under 4,000 were built, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-220824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}