The government is under pressure to stop councils swallowing up their ALMOs without comprehensively balloting their tenants. Umbrella organisation the National Federation of ALMOs has written to housing minister Grant Shapps asking him to make full tenant ballots mandatory for councils considering bringing their housing management function back in-house. The call follows Slough Council’s decision to close its ALMO People 1st at the end of last month following a consultation in which 85 per cent of respondents said they were ‘in favour [of], or not against’ the move. Forty per cent of tenants and leaseholders responded to the consultation. Slough’s ALMO finally closed four weeks ago. The letter outlines the NFA’s concerns that councils are proposing to bring their ALMOs back in-house without any ‘real consultation’ with tenants. Read the full story on Inside Housing.
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