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Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers

Sadiq Khan blames lack of funding as £4.1billion affordable housing programme stalls

Sadiq Khan (centre) during the topping out ceremony of a new affordable housing development in the Royal Docks last year - (PA)

Sadiq Khan has said he will not hit his current affordable housing target without further support from the Government, despite having only just received an extra £100m from Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

The mayor’s admission comes as it was revealed this week that his affordable homes programme is continuing to make glacial progress, with work starting on fewer than 200 properties between July and September this year - barely up from the 150 started in the previous three months.

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