Sadiq Khan has announced plans to double his previous London council housebuilding target, pledging to ensure work is started on 20,000 homes by 2024.

The London mayor said his decision came after he “smashed” the previous target to start 10,000 council homes in his first mayoral term, by the end of the 2021-22 financial year.

The mayor published data in March showing that 11,061 City-Hall-funded council homes were started by 2021-22, despite a hiatus during the covid crisis, claiming that more council homes were being built in the capital that at any time since the 1970s.

…