According to the analysis, carried out by the London Tenants Federation (LTF), just 12,050 additional social-rented homes were built in London over the
“This seems to be a reward for failure. The owners of these hostels have made money out of them at the expense of the public purse.”
She added: “What are needed are permanent council social rented homes. Schemes like this do not even paper over the cracks.”
The town hall has said that the leases will help meet record demand for temporary housing for homeless people.
The number of approaches to the council from homeless people seeking help rose 39 per cent in 2018/19 when compared to the previous year, and town hall expenditure on temporary accommodation jumped from £7.38m in 2017 to £10.13m two years later.
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• MORE than 100 social housing estates in London are under threat of demolition, indeed, on some of these estates, demolition is already well under way.
Six of the estates, comprising over 1,700 social rented homes, are in Westminster and include: Church Street Area, Cundy Street, Ebury Bridge, Hall Place, Lilestone and Lisson Green estates.
Most of the social rented homes that are under threat of demolition in London need refurbishing but do not need to be demolished.
Council land is being used to develop a much larger number of homes, many of them simply not being affordable to the existing social housing tenants.