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Affordable homes programme acquisitions (5)

  • Reference: 2025/2215
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Under the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26, how many homes funded to date have counted towards the 30 per cent acquisition cap? Could you provide data broken down by how many are: a) replacing (non-obsolete) demolished affordable homes, b) buying homes for use as affordable housing, and c) refurbishing supported housing?

Rough Sleeping Plan of Action verification process

  • Reference: 2025/2214
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Your Rough Sleeping Plan of Action published last month sets a target to “replace the current practice of ‘verifying’ that someone is sleeping rough before they can access support, with an approach based on an assessment of people’s needs, by 2028.” I am pleased to see this action being taken, as this is an issue frequently raised by campaigners and charities as a key issue with current outreach services. Could you explain why it will take three years to change the existing approach?

Residents affected by estate regeneration (3)

  • Reference: 2025/2213
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
The London Plan enshrines a Right to Return for social tenants housed on the regenerated estate. At what point in the planning and development process do residents typically express their desire to return to the regenerated estate?

Residents affected by estate regeneration (2)

  • Reference: 2025/2212
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Could you confirm when can I expect to receive the data promised in your response to my oral MQ 2025/0239, from January 2025?

Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 funding for demolitions (3)

  • Reference: 2025/2211
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Could you confirm when I can expect a full response to my MQ 2024/4025, which was promised ‘in the new year’?

Viability testing and affordable housing commitments

  • Reference: 2025/2210
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Where developers do not meet your affordable housing thresholds in a proposed development, they can use the viability testing route to reduce their affordable housing commitments. Typically there is a mismatch in resources and expertise between councils and developers, meaning developers’ determination of what is viable often cannot be effectively scrutinised by councils. How are you supporting councils to ensure they can secure the highest levels of affordable housing for their local residents?

London Plan Consultation Deaf and Disabled People’s organisation

  • Reference: 2025/2209
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Given the London Plan consultation is still not publicly available in a full range of accessible formats, will you extend the consultation deadline to ensure the voices of Deaf and Disabled Londoners can still inform the next London Plan?

Institutional investment in housing

  • Reference: 2025/2208
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
In February, the Common Wealth thinktank published its report, Open for Business or Up for Sale? Institutional Investors in the UK Real Estate Market. What is your assessment of the risks of welcoming institutional investors into the London housing market, especially through products like Build to Rent?

Underoccupancy and overcrowding

  • Reference: 2025/2207
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
During the London Assembly Housing Committee’s meeting in March, Josh Ryan-Collins from the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose reported that London has more than twice the amount of under-occupied than overcrowded housing. What steps are you taking to improve the use of the existing housing stock to tackle overcrowding?

Roma housing in London report

  • Reference: 2025/2206
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 June 2025
In February 2025, the Roma Support Group published their report, Roma housing in London: Barriers and inequalities. What learning did you take from this report and what action are you taking on its recommendations to the GLA?
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