Sentence examples for affordable target from inspiring English sources

At 4.5% of the total, this is far short of the local Lambeth council's affordable target of 40%.

"If we get more schemes of this scale, mayor Sadiq Khan might actually achieve his 50% affordable target," says Hill.

Johnson also abandoned Livingstone's 50% affordable target, allowing developers to hide behind their confidential viability assessments to justify levels as low as 10%.

Asked what would be required to achieve a long-term 50% affordable target, he said that a combination of "clear planning rules", investment and a "contribution from public land" will provide the necessary conditions.

And although some of the first 50-odd sites on TfL's list for developing with private partners may have a respectable "affordable" element, none of the few revealed so far hit Khan's promised 50% affordable target.

He refrained from setting a numerical "affordable" target too, though he confirmed a "long-term strategic" goal of 50% of all new homes built in London being "genuinely affordable".

Given the lack of affordable targets, it would now have to pay a steep price to catch up.BSCH now has 22m customers in 12 Latin American countries, having earlier this year bought Serfin of Mexico and Banco de Caracas of Venezuela.

"To say an affordable housing target is an 'aspiration' is just belittling the status of statutory plans," says Colenutt.

In Birmingham, not one of the nine biggest schemes assessed by the bureau meet the 35% affordable housing target.

Up until 2008, there was a 50% affordable housing target for new developments in London and more genuinely affordable homes were built as a result.

At his most recent mayor's question time, Johnson was challenged to name the date for his affordable housing target to be met.