It is just over eight years since Sadiq Khan published his manifesto for his first mayoral election campaign. He rightly observed that “Londoners are being priced out of our city” before going on to declare “my first priority will be tackling the housing crisis”.
Although he can take credit for injecting energy into London’s affordable homes programme, and for reviving the council housebuilding programme, there are few who say the housing crisis has been greatly eased over the past eight years. In some respects it has got worse.
