Sadiq Khan’s re-election reaction: ‘It’s time to get on with building’ Source: DrimaFilm / Shutterstock.com Architects say they want newly re-elected London mayor Sadiq Khan to deliver on his promise to build thousands of affordable homes across the capital In his manifesto, Khan unveiled an array of housing pledges and said his ‘relentless focus’ would be on building more council and ‘genuinely affordable’ homes. He has set a target of building 10,000 council homes in the next four years. Advertisement He also promised to set up a City Hall housebuilder to directly build low-cost homes for London, the ‘first of its kind in a generation’, and commission an independent review to ‘streamline housing development across the wider GLA group’.