Will affordable housing be the casualty as London tackles its building emergency?

<p>Collapse in construction activity causing alarm but mayor and Whitehall face pushback over ‘extreme solutions’</p><p>Sadiq Khan has known for a while that he has a problem with housebuilding in London. But last week a consultancy published figures about the scale of the problem, which prompted full-scale alarm in City Hall and Whitehall.</p><p>The analysis from Molior <a href="https://www.moliorlondon.com/media/molior-report-media-2025/10/molior-residential-development-in-london-q3-2025-v3.pdf">showed that</a> new housebuilding in the capital had collapsed. Only 40,000 homes are under construction – two-thirds the normal rate – and in the first three months of the year builders started work on just 3,248 private sector units.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/20/sadiq-khan-act-fast-fix-london-housebuilding-emergency">Continue reading...</a>