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Building new luxury homes makes even lower-income housing more affordable, City Hall finds

It said that market-rate homes helped make cheaper housing more affordable by “creating chains of vacancies and moves that can reach across an entire housing market area”

Evening Standard

Row after just three affordable homes started in London last quarter

Criticism against the mayor was branded “utter nonsense” by a source close to Mr Khan, who said it had been impossible to start new affordable homes due to Government delays

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan should rethink ‘clobbering’ motorists with Ulez expansion, urges senior Labour MP

Londoners should not be “clobbered” with new Ultra Low Emission Zone charges during a cost of living crisis, a Labour shadow minister said on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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Exodus of major, full-service grocers offering healthy variety paints a bleak picture of food access for some in Chicago

The number of Chicagoans living over a mile away from a supermarket or superstore — a major grocer — has jumped by 63% in the past decade, a WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Stump up £2.2bn or London house building could grind to a halt’, Sadiq Khan tells Michael Gove

Sadiq Khan issues stark warning that capital’s housing crisis will worsen without £2.2bn in Government funding as developers down tools

Evening Standard

OPINION - It’s down to us to persuade leaders to save the planet

Commentary: The public debate has yet to be won on the scale needed to save the planet

Evening Standard

Bridgeport bank failure fallout: Ex-city official, second man plead guilty in collapse of Washington Federal Bank for Savings

William M. Mahon was a high-ranking City Hall official under three former mayors and had close ties to the Daley family’s political organization.

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Motorists protest Ulez expansion outside Downing St

The rally comes a day after Sadiq Khan pledged not to “water down” the extension on August 29

Evening Standard

Chicago police union boss blasts mayor for calling teen looting a ‘trend’: ‘That means, do whatever the hell you want, apparently’

“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayors from cities around the globe back Sadiq Khan as he vows no delay to Ulez

Drivers of the most polluting cars will have to pay a daily £12.50 charge anywhere in Greater London from August 29

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan expands Ulez scrappage scheme after Keir Starmer criticism

Financial support will be extended to all Londoners as mayor digs into City Hall reserves

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan opens Ulez scrappage scheme to all Londoners in £50m boost

The Labour mayor has come under significant pressure from within his own party in recent weeks over the Ulez expansion

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rents crisis is pushing Londoners to the edge

Average rents in London are projected to soar to £2,700 per month next year, according to figures gathered by City Hall. Meanwhile, to rent just a single room in a shared house, tenants are forking out £1,000 on average.

Evening Standard

Ulez revolt intensifies as home counties councils refuse to install signs

A home counties rebellion against Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone has intensified just weeks before it is due to be rolled out to the London boundary.

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Capital’s home rental crisis as bills soar to £2,700 a month

‘Spiralling’ rental costs are driving families into poverty, a campaign group said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Slow down, Chicago Bears? Johnson won’t be rushed into deal to keep team in the city: ‘We’ll get there’

Mayor Johnson has not yet offered an alternative stadium site to the Bears if the team is determined to leave Soldier Field. He says he’s using this time for relationship building.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: London’s visitor economy is booming – now time to ditch the tourist tax

Londoners may occasionally take it for granted, but for millions of people, a visit to the capital represents the highlight of their year. And the city’s tourist economy is “roaring back” to life, according to the Mayor, as research collated by City Hall finds flight bookings and international arrivals have…

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OPINION - Rishi Sunak’s housebuilding claims are absolute hogwash

Desperate times breed desperate measures, so it’s no surprise to see a floundering Rishi Sunak making spurious claims about housebuilding in London, while offering nothing for Londoners struggling with high housing costs.

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Banned by City Hall for lying on construction contracts, still getting government work

“I didn’t believe we should be giving a contract to a firm with a history of fraud,” says the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Cameron Davis, whose agency hired Joel Kennedy Constructing Corp.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan slams Rishi Sunak’s Government of ‘blockers not builders’ in homes row

The Mayor launched the attack after the PM said he had ‘failed to deliver the homes that London needs’

Chicago Sun-Times

25 Chicago Park District employees could face firing in COVID relief fraud probe

And City Hall’s inspector general says she is continuing to investigate possible Paycheck Protection Program fraud.

The Week

Next London mayor: the odds, the polls, the candidates

The race to become the next mayor of London has become significantly closer after Labour’s shock by-election defeat in Uxbridge put incumbent Sadiq Khan’s flagship green policy in doubt.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pioneering environmental justice group mustn’t be evicted from its Altgeld Gardens home

Mayor’s office promises to intervene. We hope that’s the case.

The Independent UK

A guide to how Paris will welcome fans and stage 32 sports at the first post-pandemic Olympics

Paris is on track to host millions of visitors and successfully stage 32 sporting events next year when the 2024 Olympics open on July 26

Evening Standard

Michael Gove tells Sadiq Khan: I’ll intervene if City Hall plan fails to deliver enough homes

The Housing Secretary’s intervention sparked an angry response from City Hall

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