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Mayor of Londons 2007 Housing Strategy consultation
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Uploaded at 9.29.54am GMT Wed 7th Feb 2007
The response of the London Assembly Liberal Democrat group to the Mayor of London's Housing Strategy.
This consultation addresses many of the housing challenges that London faces today: not only meeting the needs of the 62,000 households in temporary accommodation, and the 150,000 in overcrowded accommodation, but are also reducing London's core problems of worklessness and poverty.
Whilst we welcome the strategic powers that the Mayor gains, in deciding the London Housing Strategy and Investment Plan, we would emphasise at this early stage, the need for transparency and accountability in decision-making.
We are concerned that the Mayor's Housing Strategy risks taking an overtly top-down approach, with little evidence of work with local authorities. Above all, we emphasise the need for boroughs and other key stakeholders representing local communities to have their views taken into account.
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Response to the latest Mayor's Housing strategy of 2008
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Uploaded at 4.53.34pm GMT Thu 13th Mar 2008
The average London home now costs in excess of £300,000, which is over ten times the average salary in the capital. First-time buyers need to earn £50-60,000 a year to clamber on to the London housing ladder, putting it well out of the reach of many Londoners and, crucially, many of London's key workers. To ease the pressure on housing and keep key workers in the capital, London urgently needs more affordable homes to buy and to rent.
With 60,000 London households in temporary accommodation, 190,000 families living in overcrowded conditions and not to mention the 331,230 families currently on house waiting lists in the capital, the Mayor needs to adopt a holistic approach to his strategies to tackle the effects of unemployment and poverty in the capital.
We cannot just approach housing in terms of units; we must look at housing people, making places and building communities. The location of new housing, the amenities available to it and the social mix are vital to the kind of neighbourhood that grows up around it. At the same time, the design and materials used can ensure we are creating sustainable communities whilst reducing London's carbon footprint.
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