London Mayor Sadiq Khan, under the Muslim housing plan, is building 40,000 new homes for Muslims only, to be near mosques and halal shops.
This is inaccurate. The Mayor of London has pledged to build 40,000 new council homes by the end of the decade, but these are not earmarked for a specific demographic.
A false claim that the Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, is building 40,000 new homes “for Muslims only, to be near mosques and halal shops” under “the Muslim housing plan” is circulating online.
We have previously fact checked a very similarly worded claim that Sir Sadiq has “announced a new proposal to build 40,000 new council homes specifically prioritised for Muslims under the Muslim housing plan”. A spokesperson for the Mayor of London told Full Fact earlier this year: “This claim is completely false.”
There is no source cited for the claims, but they may have stemmed from an interview Sir Sadiq gave to the Islam Channel, ahead of the May 2024 London mayoral election.
While the caption of the video, published in April 2024, asks how his manifesto was “going to affect the Muslim community”, at no point does he pledge any homes exclusively for Muslims.
He actually said: “The other big issue facing Londoners, particularly Londoners of Islamic faith, is the issue of housing. And so we need to build far more homes in our city because you know often people from minority communities want to live near a mosque, near halal food, near places where there are other people like...
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