The Mayor’s Budget for 2024-25

A functioning planning and legal system. Less ownership of property by offshore companies. A viable banking system that takes into account long-term rent paid rather than salary when deciding on mortgage affordability. Unless young people and families can afford to live in London, it will die. A City strangled by greed! The Mayor's off seems more interested in sound bites than getting to grips with and understanding the real issues facing this City, therefor pointless.

Affordable housing to rent and lots of it. Lobby Labour to end right to buy. 

Learn from how Paris is tackling congestion and pollution. Tax ICE cars and other vehicles more in line with the damage that they do to health and productivity, impose stringent noise and pollution limits for building sites, make the ULEZ stricter. Invest in active travel. Clamp down on waste.

Ramp up active travel provision - faster, further, better. Make active travel the number one choice for getting around London. Get people out of cars, off public transport. The personal health benefits are considerable and the community benefits are massive.

I'd like to see tackling the climate emergency as the first priority - and one that should inform all other decisions. So, for example, much needed new council homes must be carbon-zero and insulating houses must be a priority as it will greatly reduce people's cost of living as well as saving energy so lowering emissions. 

We need to build way more council homes for working households; especially low and medium income households

This could be paid with a localised wealth tax placed on those working in the City and surrounding boroughs; if the City is not in your purview then a one off hypothecated tax placed on householders with assets in excess of £1000000 

Council tax needs to go up significantly for those in Bands D - H; double - triple times easily

This money could go into existing council sites; building additional stories on blocks should be a big consideration 

Also planning permission to be given to extend two story terraces into 3/4 story terraces and builders / planners trained up to do this

proposed rate increase is too high. Money should be saved in Mayors office etc and by removing stupid things like cycling lanes that actually increase stopped traffic and pollution. Most of the items above are OK but there should be a lot more focus on improving efficiency of the infrastructure we have.

Ignoring climate change and 'green' policies is short-sighted.  In the near future, when sea levels and temperatures have risen and more of the world is uninhabitable, we will look back and wish we had planned ahead.  The costs for us in that future will be astronomical.  I am too old to be part of that future but my children and grand-children will be.

Crack down on Airbnb and short term rentals that are pushing Londoners out of the city. We cannot compete, not even on a high income, with people paying £300 a night. Housing should be the number one priority, unless we want to end up like Venice - a ghost city with no residents, no businesses, only touristy gimmicky places. 

With cheaper housing we’ll be able to spend more of our money on local businesses, dining out, enjoying everything that our amazing and beautiful city has to offer, instead of giving it to greedy landlords (many of whom are shell corporations who do not spend the profits of the rentals in our city or country).

Getting rid of ULEZ would help the low paid and everyone.  

cancel ULEZ is the most important 

Building more homes that Londoners can afford 

All these things are important, but vital omissions are support for arts, music, and culture, and support for sports and exercise facilities, especially swimming pools. These have suffered swingeing price hikes and increasing lengths of 'peak time' in the last two years, which combined with the re-introduction of the twirly condition on the pensioners' freedom pass conspired to increase the price of my previous early morning swim by 600% overnight! Opening hours have also been curtailed.

I think sports facilities such as pools & playing fields, gyms etc, should be classified as health centres rather than leisure centres, to reflect their importance in keeping the population fit and healthy, and saving money for the NHS. Consider the benefit to society if half the cost of an unhealthy and unfit population were to be spent on maintaining and improving the availability of such facilities. 

Access to truly affordable, not-for-profit, decent housing, access to proper full time employment paying as an absolute minimum the living wage and access to affordable and reliable transport are key building blocks, probably the foundations upon which the rest can be built.

Ignoring simple greed and/or envy, a cause of crime will always be social deprivation the removal of which is within the gift of local and central government, should they so choose to exercise.