Not only is London not building enough homes, but the city is especially bad at building “family homes” — which we’ll define as homes with three or more bedrooms.
You can see this by comparing London to the other English regions. In 2023/24, over half of newly built homes were two beds, according to government data. And almost all of the rest were one beds. Only one in ten homes had three beds and a tiny fraction — just 2% — had four or more. That’s the joint lowest level since records began in 1991.
The Londoner, December 11, 2024
