# The housing pipeline

> A target, an approval, a start and a completed home are not interchangeable stages.

- Category: Housing
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/the-housing-pipeline](https://londongraph.com/story/the-housing-pipeline)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-housing-pipeline](https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-housing-pipeline)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-08-01T15:02:29.271Z

Housing announcements become misleading when pipeline stages are added together. This story keeps London Plan delivery and GLA-funded affordable-housing outturn distinct.

## Evidence

### London Plan pipeline

Targets, approvals, completions and pipeline as separate series.

- Current computed headline: Target — 52,287 homes (2023-24)
- Approvals: 48,155 homes
- Release: AMR 21 Chapter 1 KPIs Tables.xlsx
- Dataset: `homes-promised-and-built`
- Explore: [homes-promised-and-built](https://londongraph.com/g/homes-promised-and-built)

### Affordable-housing stages

GLA-funded starts and completions by borough.

- Current computed headline: Completions — 0 GLA-funded homes · 2025-26 (Westminster)
- Starts: 0 GLA-funded homes · 2025-26
- Release: Affordable Housing Starts and Completions - end of March 2026
- Dataset: `affordable-homes-started-and-completed`
- Explore: [affordable-homes-started-and-completed](https://londongraph.com/g/affordable-homes-started-and-completed)

### Affordable tenure

The published tenure composition of GLA-funded delivery.

- Current computed headline: Social Rent (and LAR to benchmarks) [10] — 0.6 share of GLA-funded starts · 2025-26 (Social Rent (and LAR to benchmarks) [10])
- Open Market [3]: 0.2 share of GLA-funded starts · 2025-26
- Release: Affordable Housing Starts and Completions - end of March 2026
- Dataset: `affordable-housing-tenure`
- Explore: [affordable-housing-tenure](https://londongraph.com/g/affordable-housing-tenure)

## Interpretation

GLA-funded programme outturn is not total affordable supply, and an approval, start or pipeline entry is not a completed home.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-plan-amr-21-data-tables-2rjko)
- [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/gla-affordable-housing-programme-outturn-2o8xd)