Sadiq Khan's «affordable» homes include renting apartments for £2,400 per month.

The Mayor of London maintains a website called Houses for Londoners, which aims to help people with «low and middle incomes». find an 'affordable home' Credit: James Manning/PA Wire

Sadiq Khan is under fire for his housing policy after it was revealed he was selling 'affordable' one-bed flats to Londoners for £2,415 a month.

The Mayor of London runs a Londoner's Houses website, which aims to help 'low to middle income' residents of the capital find an 'affordable home'.

These include tenants offering below-market rents, which is designed to help tenants save on a deposit to buy their own homes.

However, among the properties listed on the site are one-bedroom apartments in Nine Elms Lane, close to Battersea Power Station, starting at £2,415 per calendar month.

Mr Khan took to Twitter last month to denounce the fact that the average rent in private homes in London has reached «an incredible £2,500 a month» — almost the same as an apartment in Nine Elms Lane.

AVERAGE PRIVATE RENT IN LONDON: Incredible £2,500 per month.

AVERAGE LONDON TERRACE HOUSE: An almost unattainable £850,000.

It's a grave injustice that young Londoners struggle to live in the city that raised them.

— London Mayor Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) May 22, 2023

Two-bedroom apartments in this development start at £3,010.

According to the Mayor's website, apartments in a «fabulous riverside location» have «unsurpassed amenities» including «pools, rooftop lounge bars.» , rooftop terraces, gyms and even pet spas, offering an exceptional lifestyle for rent.»

The website adds that the kitchens are «equipped with Smeg appliances and the bedrooms are comfortably furnished plush carpets and built-in wardrobes. .

Conservatives seized on news of expensive apartments to question Mr. Khan's living conditions.

Sean Bailey, a former Conservative mayoral candidate who is the party's representative for housing in the London Assembly, said genuine or accessible about Sadiq Khan's housing policy. trying to keep up with his goals, but expanding the definition of affordability by selling them for a mind-boggling £2,415 a month.

“The mayor has received billions in government funding and yet he is failing. Londoners deserve so much more.»

Sadiq Khan has failed to build the affordable family housing Londoners need. Despite having received billions from the government, he resorts to apartment buildings that people do not want in a desperate struggle to achieve his goal. Khan should stop splurge & build houses that people want to live in.

— Shaun Bailey (@ShaunBaileyUK) May 15, 2023

However, Mr Khan responded to the criticism by saying that the Nine Elms project was endorsed by his predecessor, Boris Johnson, who stepped down as mayor in 2016.

A spokesman for the mayor said: “These certain the houses were approved by the previous mayor under his much broader definition of affordable housing, with rents up to 80 percent of market levels.

“Sadiq abandoned that definition when he became mayor and after many years — investment from the government, is extremely proud to have launched a record 116,000 truly affordable homes, the equivalent of a city the size of Plymouth, despite unprecedented economic instability.

Mr Khan's spokesman added: «Only for the last work began last year on more than 25,000 affordable housing units, more than three times the level reached at the end of the previous mayor's term.

“His calls for the government to freeze private rents for two years to help struggling tenants continue to be deaf.”