Mayor is off the tracks on housing - Tuffrey

1.00.00pm GMT Wed 14th Jan 2009

Mike Tuffrey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Housing Spokesman, commenting on the Mayor's claims about delivering affordable homes for London said:

"The Mayor talks a good talk on housing, but his real record is not one to boast about.

"It is quite frankly bare cheek for the Mayor to claim that he is on track in delivering affordable housing when the facts show that one of the Mayor's key pledges to Londoners will be missed by a huge margin.

"The Mayor was elected promising to deliver 50,000 affordable homes by 2011. He even promised this again in his housing strategy published just last Summer. Today's announcement simply confirms that he will fall short of this target by at least 10,000 homes."

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Notes to editors:

1. The Mayor's housing manifesto Building a Better London repeatedly stated that the Mayor would deliver 50,000 more affordable homes by 2011 - http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/04/27/borishousingmanifesto.pdf

2. The Mayor's draft housing strategy, published in May 2009, stated that the Mayor would deliver 50,000 affordable homes by March 2011. http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/housing/strategy/docs/london-housing-strategy09.pdf (page 17)