Newlon Housing Trust has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Greater London Authority (GLA) which will add £15m to the trust’s coffers as it seeks to build more than 1,200 affordable homes by 2022.

The Tottenham-based trust manages 8,000 homes across the north and east of the capital and the new deal with the GLA will help it build 378 of its target of 1,265 new homes, 88% of which will be what it called “truly affordable”.