In 2023, London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched a high-profile campaign saying that “London is in a golden era of council home building.”
Can this really be a “golden era” when there are record levels of homelessness? And what does “affordable” even mean when thousands of families are displaced and forced to live in temporary accommodation?
Dr Joe Penny’s report, ‘The promise of cross-subsidy: Why estate demolition cannot solve London’s housing emergency’, was commissioned by The Public Law Interest Centre.
Read the full report and explore the accompanying “What Golden Era?” guide to discover how wildly ineffective cross-subsidy models of estate regeneration are for providing affordable housing for low-income Londoners.