HUNDREDS of Londoners will stand up to Tory Mayor Boris Johnson today in an attempt to block his “rich only” budget due for a City Hall vote.

The Block the Budget protest has been called by housing campaigners, social and private tenants in response to an ever-growing housing crisis in the capital.

The mayor has been responsible for the end of rent controls on new build homes in the city and spearheading the sell-off of hundreds of acres of public property to private developers.

Janette Evans, a West Hendon resident planning to attend today’s protest, said: “London is becoming a city for the rich only — but ordinary people are rising up and uniting and will fight for their right to a home.”

The Radical Housing Network, which has united anti-privatisation and anti-gentrification groups, has organised the demonstration.

A spokesman for the group accused the mayor of “fast-tracking social cleansing.”

“Londoners are in desperate need of secure, genuinely affordable housing, yet Boris Johnson, the most powerful politician in London, with a housing budget close to £2 billion at his fingertips, is acting and speaking on behalf of rich developers,” he said.

Campaigners doubt Mr Johnson’s ability to build a pledged 100,000 affordable homes by 2016 and complain that his capping of “affordable rents” at 80 per cent of the London average rent is still too high for most.

The protest outside Mr Johnson’s offices comes after months of occupations and eviction resistance actions, particularly on estates earmarked for demolition such as the Aylesbury in Walworth and the Guinness Trust’s Loughborough Park in Brixton.

Guinness Estate resident Betiel Mehari said she would be marching on City Hall today because “the sort of London our mayor is creating is not for ordinary people.”

“We need to link up with other campaigns and fight the Mayor at every level.”

The mayor also hosted the Mipim property fair in London last October where councils from all over the country got awarded for their gentrification programmes.

As reported by the Star, the event sparked the wrath of Londoners, with clashes between housing campaigners and property developers outside London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre.