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• Reference: 2018/0231
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

How will the Mayor's 'No one needs to sleep rough in London' campaign and new London Homeless Charities Group contribute to reducing homelessness in the capital?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Tom Copley AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I wanted to ask you about the levels of affordable housing and specifically the London Affordable [Living] Rent which is the Mayor’s new form of tenure that is going to be benchmarked at social rent levels. Are you going to have a target specifically for London Affordable Rent across the OPDC site?

• 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 ?

• Reference: 2016/4974
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress are you making on delivering the Mayor's manifesto commitments on housing'?

• 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: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I would like to question you about a specific part of the Mayor’s manifesto that stated that the Mayor would “make sure Londoners get a fair deal from developers”. Profits of large building firms have exploded by more than 500% in the last six years and many local authorities simply have not been able to negotiate enough affordable housing with developers over recent years. One of the issues is the expertise and this whole industry around viability assessments when experts work for the boroughs one day and then for developers the next. Can you explain how...