• Reference: 2025/1209
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Government’s ‘expert advisory panel’ is currently looking at the development of new towns across England and is expected to make an announcement in the summer. What is your view on whether the New Towns proposals are an appropriate solution to tackling London’s Housing crisis?

• Reference: 2025/1208
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

How many of London’s shared owners are currently in arrears on rent or service charge and what support is available to them?

• Reference: 2025/1207
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Your Service Charges Charter states that housing providers “need to manage potential cost rises appropriately” and “should set out how leaseholders facing financial hardship may be assisted”. Should housing providers funded by the GLA support shared owners who bought a home before the Charter was introduced in the same way? Should funding of registered providers be conditional on evidence that they are supporting all their shared owners in the same way?

• Reference: 2025/1206
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Have you assessed the effectiveness of the London Plan Policy H6 in light of recent above average service charges increases? How many existing shared owners in London now have annual housing costs, including mortgage, rent and service charge, that are greater than 40 per cent of net household income?

• Reference: 2025/1205
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What percentage of shared owners in London live in blocks that: (a) are owned by registered providers; and (b) are owned and managed by third parties?

• Reference: 2025/1204
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Can the GLA use its allocation for acquisitions in the current Affordable Homes Programme to fund buybacks of unmortgageable flats from shared owners for conversion into social or affordable rent?

• Reference: 2025/1203
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Are there any barriers to registered providers using Recycled Capital Funding Grant to fund buybacks of unmortgageable shared ownership properties in London?

• Reference: 2025/1202
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

How many GLA-funded registered providers currently have a ‘buyback’ policy for shared owners, and do these policies take into account financial pressures shared owners may be under from above-inflation service charge increases? Are checks carried out to ensure these policies are downloadable and accessible on registered providers’ websites?

• Reference: 2025/1201
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

How many registered housing providers in London currently have a ‘downwards staircasing’ policy for shared owners? Are checks carried out to ensure these policies are downloadable and accessible on registered providers’ websites?