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Young Londoners earning £60,000-a-year can no longer afford a home in the capital, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate has said as she laid out her plans to ease the city’s housing crisis.Laila Cunningham said her children know that they will not be able to afford to live independently in London when they leave home.

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00:00Obviously another big issue affecting Londoners, there is such a lack of affordable housing
00:04in the city. You've got children. Do you think your children will be able to afford to live
00:09in London when they grow up? No, and they know that. You know, I have seven kids and I'm really
00:13selfish. You know, I grew up near my mum. My sister grew up near my mum and it was the
00:16best
00:17we'd go over to each other's houses for Sunday lunch. I want to experience that as well and I
00:22speak to so many kids who are like, you know, they're on 60k in London, like top earners in
00:26the country. There is no way they can afford to build and have a home. And actually when
00:30it comes time, time for them to have kids, they move out of London. And that is a failure
00:34for me. You know, Sadiq Khan boasts about we have the greenest home building or, you know,
00:39the greenest construction. How is that helping Londoners? It's not. I want people to boast.
00:44I want to boast about how many young people have owned a home and built a family in London.
00:48It's very important for me. And there's TfL land that can be released. You can build near
00:53transport hubs. He's massively underspent from government grants. And what we've seen is
00:58regulation has massively reduced the amount of home building that has been built, you know.
01:05And I feel that we need to look at regulation in a different way. We need to ask,
01:08is it actually defending us or protecting us from a harm? And what problem is this regulation
01:16trying to solve? And what is the economic cost of this regulation? And is it worth it?
01:21And if it isn't, then it's got to go.
01:23Five.
01:23Four or eight.
01:23One.
01:23You

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