• I WAS pleased to learn that the council is investing £40million this year towards achieving its pledge to deliver 2,000 new genuinely affordable homes in the four years to 2019 (Let down over housing, February 24).

However, I’m at a loss to understand how the council can be “on track to meet this target” when the 131 homes that it will build this year “will be the most built in Islington in a single year for 30 years”.

I am further confused about how the council is defining a “home” when its proposals for four flats at Windsor Street (at a cost of around £4million) are counted by council officers as 14 single unit homes.

Is this not just another case of spinning figures for political ends, which will make little difference to reducing the 20,000-plus households on the housing waiting list?

G WESTON
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