Deputy Mayor of London Tom Copley slammed the Autumn Statement as "an enormous, missed opportunity" to address the acute housing affordability crisis that is raging on London's streets.
Copley described a city where the human cost of the housing crisis is bleeding into other areas. "It could be the cost to the NHS of people living in damp and mouldy accommodation or the cost of a child not doing as well as school as they should do because they are living in over-crowded accommodation.
