• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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’?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• Reference: 2025/2205
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Transport for London’s (TfL) portfolio agreement means they can propose 35 per cent affordable housing on a public land development without the need for viability testing, rather than the standard 50 per cent for developments on public land. Many of their schemes have come forward with 35 per cent, or slightly higher at 40 per cent, meaning future schemes will have to provide much higher than proportions of affordable housing to hit their 50 per cent target. How are you ensuring Londoners get the best use of public land by holding TfL to their targets, and when do you intend...