Your article (News June 14) tells us that Boris Johnson promises 400,000 new homes in the capital in the next 10 years and goes on to tell us that he has a target of 40,000 affordable homes a year.

The last mayor of London Ken Livingstone’s intention was for 50% of the houses built to be affordable. That was obviously a modest ambition compared with Johnson’s, whose figures suggest that 100% of the homes built should be affordable.

Ron Heath
Loughton, Essex

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