AT-A-GLANCE: Main London mayoral contenders' housing policies

Sadiq Khan (Labour)

• Establish Homes for Londoners – a City Hall-based team which will build homes directly on land owned by the mayor, including Transport for London land.
• Clear guidelines for which developments the mayor will ‘call in’, including where planning has stalled, and where opportunities to deliver more new or affordable homes are being missed
• A 50% target for affordable housing in new developments with greater transparency around viability assessments
• A London-wide, not-for-profit lettings agency for ‘good’ landlords

Zac Goldsmith (Conservatives)

• 50,000 homes a year by 2020
• ‘Flying planners’ to provide expert planning advice to under resourced local authorities
• Insisting the mayor, NHS or MoD retains a ‘London share’ in public land sold for new development
• Publish local authority planning approval rates and hold to account authorities that don’t build enough

Peter Whittle (UKIP)

• Introduce a five-year residency test to qualify for social housing
• Build more homes on brownfield sites
• Increase taxes on empty properties
• Lobby for reduced EU immigration and Brexit to reduce demand for housing

Sian Berry (Green)

• 200,000 new homes – half of them built affordably by communities, co-operatives and housing associations
• A London Renters Union and lobbying for rent control
• No more estate demolitions with practical help for residents to make alternative plans
• Set up a city hall housing company funded by a reintroduction of the Olympic precept (council tax to fund the Olympics) to build public housing

Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat)

• Retain the Olympic Precept (but don’t raise it) to build 50,000 council homes and 150,000 for market rent or sale
• Crack down on rogue landlords with extended mandatory registration
• A City Hall building company and a skills academy to train construction workers
• Benchmark guidance that half of new housing in London should be affordable