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Breakdown of delivery schedule for GLA-funded 'affordable' homes

  • Reference: 2018/1477
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
In the delivery schedule in table 2 of your Housing Strategy, you outline only targets for overall 'affordable' home delivery. Will you break this down for your funding programme to show future estimates for the number of homes funded at different tenures, including higher 'affordable' rents that are above London Living Rent levels?

Social Integration Strategy

  • Reference: 2018/1476
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Your Social Integration Strategy makes a commitment to publish a regular set of measures on the state of social integration in London which will be updated annually on the London Datastore. When will this next be updated?

Measuring overcrowding in London

  • Reference: 2018/1475
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/0126. Your Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement has told us that he is conducting a survey to enable annual London-wide data and borough-by-borough breakdowns for all his measures for monitoring social integration. Following up on my suggestion that overcrowding in London (currently only measurable by combining three years of data from the English Housing Survey and only at a London-wide level) should be assessed at a borough level by your office to help boroughs set targets for reducing overcrowding and the size mix of new homes, will...

London Model for the private rented sector

  • Reference: 2018/1474
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
What is the timescale for the completion of your new private sector tenancy model, the London Model?

Ministry of Justice land

  • Reference: 2018/1473
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Policy 3.1C(ii) of your Housing Strategy commits you to work with: "councils, the National Health Service (NHS), Network Rail, and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) - to release more land for housing." Will you also include the Ministry of Justice in your efforts, so that any of its sites are also used for maximum public benefit rather than just the highest return?

Hostmaker advertisements on Transport for London network

  • Reference: 2018/1472
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Hostmaker - an Airbnb management service - promises to "deliver superior yields" for landlords. While the Hostmaker advertisements may not contravene the Transport for London (TfL) advertising policy, is it morally acceptable for such advertisements to feature on the TfL network?

New Build to Rent commitment in final Housing Strategy

  • Reference: 2018/1471
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Policy 3.3A(iii) of your Housing Strategy commits you to exploring how the rents charged for homes in the Build to Rent sector can be monitored as the sector grows. Could you outline how you will monitor these rents, and how you will make the monitoring data available to the public for scrutiny?

Tenancy deposit loans for refugees

  • Reference: 2018/1470
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
I was pleased that your Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement responded positively at the 15 May 2018 GLA Oversight Committee meeting to my suggestion that he look into how the GLA could help the Refugee Council to support refugees with tenancy deposit loans. Do you also back this idea?

First dibs for Londoners (3)

  • Reference: 2018/1469
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Thank you for your response to my question 2017/4996. The wording of policy 5.3 D(i) in your revised Housing Strategy has been changed to say "helping to ensure that Londoners have first dibs for more new homes." What does 'first dibs' mean in this context?

Rogue landlord database (2)

  • Reference: 2018/1468
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
There are 23 London boroughs yet to upload information about letting agents and landlords to your rogue landlord database. When will they do so?
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