Ealing to Take Housing Management in-house

Ealing Council has dropped plans to pass management of its homes from its ALMO to private companies, following a leadership change. The move will not save ALMO Ealing Homes from the axe, however. Councillors have voted to bring the management of the council’s stock back in-house. The policy shift took place because Labour took political control of the council from the Conservative Party in this month’s local elections. The previous Conservative administration had planned to end the council’s contract with the ALMO from March 2011. Private sector organisations would be invited to bid for contracts to manage Ealing’s 18,000-homes. But the council’s Labour group had always opposed this. Read the full story on Inside Housing.