Two London mayoral hopefuls have come up with housing strategies in their manifestos.
Brian Paddick and Siobhan Benita have both unveiled plans that would effectively cut private rents throughout the capital.
Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson have also put housing at the centre of their manifestos. Livingstone would, if elected, set up a not-profit lettings agency for private landlords and tenants.
LibDem Paddick has pledged to build 360,000 new homes in the next ten years if he is elected, and introduce a ‘living rent’ whereby Londoners would pay no more than one-third of their net salary on rent.
He says that currently tenants in the social rented sector spend 37% of their income on rent, while private rented households spend more than half of their pay on housing costs in 22 of London’s 33 boroughs.
Independent candidate Benita would create a new department called Homes for London which would be responsible for implementing her policies.
She would create a fixed-price housing market built on council-owned land. The land would be given to developers, but homes built on it would have to be sold into a regulated housing market controlled by Homes for London. These would be sold or let at around half the market rate.
She would also set up a ‘mayor’s lettings MOT’ to improve standards in the private rented sector.
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@Ray Comer
Whilst I'm sure Ms Aniston could rustle up a decent plate of bacon and eggs, it's disappointing that you'd have her in a negligee and then send her to the kitchen. I suggest you reconsider your priorities, sir.
excuse my spelling - new keyboard :-(
Ken's released his manifesto today. HisTenants Charter will bring a level of standards to private letting including deposit protection ....oh, hang on, hasn't that already been done by someone else? And he's going to campaign for legislation for a fairer system to control rent increases ..oh, oops, don't we have that already with the RAC?
Just a rehash of existing legislation and the hope that alndlords will be 'fair' and reduce their rent. Good luck with that, lol
Wonder how many BTL's the Mayoral hopefuls own and whether they'd drop their prices.
yeah, yeah, yeah - until the day they get elected then all these wondrous utopian ideals will all be dropped as the non starters they actually are.
I'd still like to see the business model behind Ken's idea and a guarantee than council tax payers won't be footing the bill. I'd also like to see Jennifer Aniston in a negligee cooking my breakfast, probably more chance of that happening than kens revealing his plans.