Boris Johnson breaks another promise.

According to the Dave Hill's Guardian London Blog "Boris Johnson has made no progress at all on his manifesto pledge to sell surplus GLA  land to Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and enabling genuinely affordable homes to be built on it and managed by housing co-operatives."
 
Even the right leaning Spectator describes Johnson's  failure as a "quiet tragedy" while "Londoners have watched prices outstrip wages in the private sector and demand outstrip supply in the social sector. As a result, millions of people – from high-flying young city workers to unemployed families – have been pushed into unaffordable and unstable private rented accommodation."


"Their (CLTs) genius is that they do not require hundreds of millions of pounds of public investment. Trusts simply require elected officials to put communities before speculators."

Ken Livingstone

Meanwhile Labour's Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has declared full support for "Co-operative principles of mutualism and decentralisation will be a key new element of Ken's new manifesto," it says in a statement. "We particularly believe the ideas on affordable and mutual housing make an extremely valuable contribution to debate about how we can tackle the housing crisis."