Hackney Council鈥檚 cabinet has approved construction of 400 new council homes across 14 council-owned sites in the borough.
The site include underused garages and derelict offices, including nine new terraced houses on the Nye Bevan Estate and a block of 18 homes in place of garages at Blackwell Close in Clapton.
At least 300 of the new homes will be for council social rent, with funding coming from the Mayor of London鈥檚 Affordable Homes Fund and directly from the Council.
Mayor of Hackney Caroline Woodley said: 鈥淭his is another milestone in our mission to deliver 1,000 new council homes for social rent across Hackney, which will see spades in the ground on 400 new homes.
鈥淲e鈥檙e building some of the best new council homes in the country. They鈥檙e spacious, energy efficient, designed in partnership with communities and, most importantly of all, local people always get first dibs.
鈥淚鈥檓 proud of our record, but we know there鈥檚 more to do, which is why we want to expand our housing programmes to build and buy back thousands more for the people in desperate need of somewhere to call home.鈥�
The council said that new building regulations that mean it now costs more than 拢500,000 to deliver one council home in London 鈥� and Hackney is putting up 972 of them in total.