Angry ALMOs could be forced to stop decent homes work almost immediately, following a hard line government funding settlement. The government revealed last week that it expects landlords to fund work to improve the last 10 per cent of non-decent homes themselves. This means that ALMOs which have already completed 90 per cent or more of their decent homes programmes can expect to receive no further funding from April next year. They had anticipated spreading work over a longer period of time than originally planned to access the £1.6 billion decent homes funding available over the next four years. One senior ALMO source said the abrupt end would see its contractors having to lay off staff. Paul Bridge, chief executive of Homes for Haringey, said: ‘This is big news for the ALMO movement because it raises the question “what is the point of the ALMO?”.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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