Haringey Council started 343 council homes from April to September 2026, more than any London borough, City Hall figures show. Published 10 November 2026.
Haringey Council started work on 343 council homes between April and September 2026, more than any other London borough, according to figures the Greater London Authority published on Tuesday 10 November. Hackney was next with 294, then Greenwich with 258 and Barnet with 245.
The figures came out the same day the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that London had beaten the top of its Government target for the 2021 to 2026 Affordable Homes Programme. City Hall recorded 21,001 starts under that £4 billion programme, 2,001 above the upper target of 19,000.
Haringey’s council homes
City Hall keeps a separate table of council homes built through its programmes. Haringey’s year-by-year starts on site were:
- 2019-20: 243
- 2020-21: 134
- 2021-22: 342
- 2022-23: 1,074
- 2023-24: 57
- 2024-25: 63
- 2025-26: 324, second in London behind Tower Hamlets (400)
- April to September 2026: 343, first in London
That adds up to 2,580 council homes started since 2019, second only to Southwark (2,664) across London. Completions lag behind: the council finished 508 council homes through GLA programmes in 2024-25, the second highest in London, 128 in 2025-26, and 325 between April and September this year, again second, behind Barking and Dagenham.
All affordable homes
A wider table, Table 2 of the GLA’s starts and completions spreadsheet, counts every affordable home started in each borough through any GLA programme, whether by the council, a housing association or a developer. On that measure Haringey started 330 affordable homes in 2025-26, tenth in London, and 368 between April and September 2026, ninth. Almost all of them are for social rent: 324 of last year’s 330 and 343 of this year’s 368 (the GLA counts London Affordable Rent at social rent benchmarks in the same column).
Across the five years from April 2021 to March 2026, Haringey started 2,868 affordable homes, eighth of London’s 33 local authorities. Most of that came in a single year, 1,851 in 2022-23, before starts fell to 69 in 2023-24 and 109 in 2024-25. Barnet started 3,128 over the same five years, Waltham Forest 1,998, Enfield 1,906, Islington 1,405 and Camden 739. Those totals cover all GLA programmes, so they are not the same thing as the 21,001 counted against the Mayor’s target, and the GLA does not break that 21,001 down by borough.
What the Mayor and the Government said
City Hall says the target was reached despite “higher construction and borrowing costs which have made it harder to get developments under way”, and that new building safety requirements and delays at the Building Safety Regulator have added to the pressure on housebuilders. The target itself was moved twice: set at 35,000 in 2021, cut to 23,900 to 27,200 in 2023, then to 17,800 to 19,000 in March 2025 “after significant increase in inflation and borrowing costs”. City Hall says more than 116,000 affordable homes have been started in London since 2016.
Sadiq Khan said: “I’m hugely proud that we’ve exceeded the Government target. Councils, housing associations, and housebuilders across London have worked hard to get these homes under way in some of the toughest conditions for housebuilding in years, and today’s figures show that our collective work is delivering for Londoners.
“Building more social and affordable homes is a top priority and I’m taking the tough decisions needed to get them built.
“I know we’ve still got a long way to go to tackle the housing crisis. I’m working closely with the Government to agree temporary emergency measures to get stalled sites moving. We’ve also secured funding to help build thousands more social and affordable homes over the next decade to ensure we deliver the homes Londoners desperately need, as we build a better London for everyone.”
Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, said: “Londoners deserve decent, affordable homes and it’s encouraging to see the capital exceeding its target, as we continue to turn the tide on the housing crisis.
“We know we need to go further though, and we’ll continue to work closely with the Mayor, with up to £11.7 billion made available to get stalled sites moving and build the social and affordable homes families desperately need.”
What comes next
The next programme, the London Social and Affordable Homes Programme for 2026 to 2036, has up to £11.7 billion of Government money behind it. City Hall says it has already offered at least £6 billion in the first round of allocations, with 60 per cent going to councils to build council housing. It has not said how much of that has been offered to Haringey.
In March the Mayor and the Government also agreed a package of temporary measures for stalled sites, including a time-limited fast-track planning route for eligible developments and £324 million for City Hall’s Developer Investment Fund.
What it means for you
A start means work has begun on site, not that a home is ready to let; most of the homes counted this year will be finished over the next few years. How quickly the council relets the homes it already has matters too: in September it had 818 empty homes, and its lettings plan for 2026/27 forecasts about 550 households moving from temporary accommodation into long-term homes (our report on the empty homes). In October the Regulator of Social Housing gave Haringey’s council housing its lowest grade, C4.
City Hall publishes the next quarter’s figures, covering April to December 2026, on Tuesday 9 February 2027.
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