As I reported at the official Full Council meeting tonight, the Council’s Corporate Director for Housing and Regeneration has confirmed 6,441 homes are in delivery or will have been delivered by this May.
We’ve put Tower Hamlets at the forefront of tackling London’s housing crisis, delivering more homes than any other London borough since 2013, and we are now not just meeting but far exceeding our target in the 2022 election of 4,000 new affordable homes, by nearly 2,500 homes.
We have a further 2,000+ social rented homes in the pipeline at the moment, as well as the Mayor’s Accelerated Housing Programme fast-tracking an additional 3,332 new homes over the next five years — particularly larger, social rented family-sized and accessible homes.
I am incredibly proud that we are delivering one of the most ambitious plans in the country to build thousands more affordable and social rent homes to meet the needs of our residents.