*We regret the Government's inability to give a firm commitment on how the funding will be provided to enable the remaining ALMOs that have yet to receive funding to improve decency in their stock.
*We call on the Government to make clear as soon as possible when the funding will be delivered to achieve the completion of the Decent Homes programme in the ALMO sector.
*We conclude that the ten-year experience of ALMOs has generated improvements in asset management of social sector stock that are not simply attributable to additional funding.
*We recommend that the Government make arrangements for the continued management of housing stock by ALMOs, including by providing for access to funding under the new self-financing system.
*We consider that local authorities should not take their ALMOs back in-house until they have conducted a ballot of tenants and received an endorsement by tenants of that plan.
*We conclude that local authorities with retained stock are capable of effective day-to-day management, but that lessons learned from ALMOs should be applied to improve their results.
*The establishment of ALMOs has significantly improved the performance of council landlords and the requirement to reach a two-star rating of service in order to be granted funding has been a very successful driver of standards of housing management.
*We recommend that the Government give ALMOs the capacity to raise private finance against future rental streams in the context of a 30 year agreement with their local authority.
*We consider the restriction of ALMO spending on estates or communal areas to 5% of their budgets to be unreasonable, and recommend that the Government introduce greater flexibility to allow ALMOs to spend a greater proportion of funds on these measures as necessary.
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