What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton

In Peckham, developers unwilling to meet affordable housing quotas are facing down residents and the councilTeekall and his wife are raising a family in Peckham, south London. He runs a successful business as a commercial designer with a studio just down the road, and she works in higher education. Their two boys attend the local primary school. However, the family has outgrown their one-and-a-half-bedroom flat. Although they would like to stay in Peckham, they can’t afford to.Just around the corner from where they live, the developer Berkeley Homes is proposing to build 877 new units, on the site of the Aylesham Centre shopping complex in the heart of Peckham, claiming it is responding to the government’s commitment to build 1.5m new homes to tackle the acute housing crisis. Given the predicament Teekall finds himself in, he might be expected to welcome plans for hundreds of new homes, but the opposite is the case. “Our budget can’t reach the price of the homes in a Berkeley development. Me and my wife have good jobs and decent salaries but that wouldn’t be possible for us. It’s unrealistic to stay, which I’m really angry about,” he told me.Anna Minton is reader in architecture at the University of East London. Her new book on the housing crisis will be published by Penguin next year Continue reading...

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