Far from abandoning his target of 50,000 new affordable homes by 2011 due to the downturn Mayor Johnson has sent every borough an "indicative target" number he hopes it will agree to, according to Inside Housing:
They show that, if the boroughs agree, more than half of the mayor's 50,000 target will be delivered by just eight of the capital's 33 boroughs - Newham, Tower Hamlets, Barnet, Greenwich, Southwark, Barking and Dagenham, Islington and Brent. More than a quarter of the homes would come from just three of those boroughs - Newham, with 5,754, Tower Hamlets, with 5,164, and Barnet, with 3,369.
Meanwhile the eight local authorities with the lowest goals would between them deliver just 9 per cent of the target. Richmond, the City of London, Bexley, Kensington and Chelsea, Hillingdon, Merton, Kingston, and Enfield would collectively be responsible for providing just 4,627 affordable homes.
According to housing adviser Richard Blakeway, these numbers are based on the boroughs' capacity to deliver, their recent record of delivery, the programmes they have in the pipeline and their individual needs. Looks like the expected concentration in the poorer parts of town, though I'm not sure how Barnet will be feeling.
