The London Assembly has found that concern over housing among Londoners is at its highest recorded level, with 37% of Londoners citing it as one of the most important issues facing the country.
The Assembly says that housing supply has failed to keep up with economic and population growth over the last two decades, with the number of jobs in London growing by 40% and the number of people living in the capital rising by 25%, whereas the number of homes in London has only grown by 15%.
The London Mayor’s Housing in London report sets out the evidence base for his housing policies, summarising key patterns and trends across a wide range of topics relevant to housing in the capital.
The report will inform the development of the Mayor’s London Housing Strategy, which is due to be published for consultation with Londoners later in 2017.
At its first meeting on 8 December 2016, the Homes for Londoners Board agreed to establish three sub-groups to investigate and develop action on new models of housing delivery, as well as the skills and capacity of London’s construction industry and the role of overseas buyers in London’s property market.
The role of the construction skills sub-group will be to develop proposals to improve skills provision and promote industry capacity, along with any recommendations on change or devolution required from central government.
The sub-group is being chaired by Councillor Peter John and will report its finding to the Homes for Londoners Board and Skills for Londoners Taskforce later in the year. It will also help to inform the development of proposals for the Mayor’s Construction Academy Scheme.
Last week, new figures revealed that nearly 100,000 of the capital’s construction workforce came from the European Union.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said:
“London is in the grip of a serious housing crisis and fixing it is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. While we are working to train up more Londoners to have the skills to work in construction, you can't escape the fact that a hard Brexit could leave a quarter of the skilled construction workforce in the capital high and dry, which would have a crippling effect on our plans to build the homes Londoners so desperately need.”
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