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• Reference: 2016/4500
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What are you doing to deal with rogue private sector landlords?

• Reference: 2016/4501
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress is being made with AirBnB to ensure that properties are not let through them for longer than planning requirements permit?

• Reference: 2016/4502
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to deal with estate agents' fees charged to tenants seeking a private sector rental?

• Reference: 2016/4503
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to ensure that Barratts and Family Mosaic housing deal properly and promptly with repairs to lifts and heating and hot water systems amongst other issues and only raise fair service charges for residents in the Stonegrove regeneration, Barnet, partly funded by the GLA ?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Tom Copley AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. There are many things to welcome in the affordable housing prospectus and in the housing SPG particularly if, like me, you are keen to see a return to submarket rents and particularly to social rents. I wanted to ask you first about this London affordable rent, which looks very much like a social rented product and the rent is benchmarked at the social rent. How many homes for the London affordable rent do you expect to have been built by 2021?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. I have a couple of questions to ask you about rogue landlords and landlord licensing. Would further powers from the DCLG assist the GLA and local authorities in tackling rogue landlords? Very specifically and bearing in mind the answer that the Minister gave to Assembly Member Pidgeon - I think you were sitting in the gallery and so you heard his answer - how do you see things from your side vis-à-vis the DCLG and London-wide landlord licensing?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Leonie Cooper AM: Can I just say, Deputy Mayor, that it is very welcome to have you here today and preceded by the Minister? It has been a good morning talking about housing, which is such a crucial issue for our city. At the sharp end of housing is homelessness, which is the area I wanted to ask you about. Assembly Member Copley and I will be moving a motion later on this morning on homelessness because it has been very much on the increase, particularly in London. I just wondered if you had managed to have any discussions with...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I wanted to come to the issue of land banking. The previous Mayor stated: “To constrict supply to push up prices by land banking is plainly against the economic interests of this city.” Sadiq [Khan, Mayor of London] said in the manifesto: “Exercise use-it-or-lose-it powers to make sure developers who have planning permission build homes and do not land bank.” There seems to be a degree of consensus about the issue. How do you think the DCLG could support the GLA in tackling land banking? For example, one option would be to allow planning authorities to, if...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Joanne McCartney AM: . I want to ask you about supported housing. Last month I was delighted to open Protheroe House in Tottenham. This was a development for older Londoners with extra care needs. It offers affordable rents, greatly below, alternative residential care accommodation and part of the units are supported by the NHS. In effect, it unblocks beds from hospitals. I was quite shocked to see under the former Mayor the Mayor’s Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund had an underspend of 66%. I am wondering what you have done to review this and what are your plans for...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Tom Copley AM: It follows on quite nicely from the point about co-ops. I want to talk about smaller developments and smaller pieces of land. We did hear a bit about this earlier from the Housing Minister, who suggested this was not a silver bullet, but a lot is being talked about trying to get SME builders going and there was a recent announcement from the Government of a homebuilding fund that would provide loans to small and medium builders. Can you tell me: is that fund all going to be administered nationally or will it be devolved for administration...