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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall and Jonathan Prynn

London housing crisis: Affordable homes ratio 'to be slashed to 20%' after Sadiq Khan crisis talks

Only 20 per cent of homes in new developments would have to be “affordable” and available to Londoners on low incomes, under emergency changes designed to revitalise the dormant housing industry, it has emerged.

The new rules would mean Sir Sadiq Khan’s current requirement for 35 per cent of developments to be “affordable” would be ditched.

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