A resident-led housing association in the West Midlands is celebrating the transfer of 1,400 homes from Lambeth Council, following a successful resident ballot. Walsall-based WATMOS Community Homes was set up by a group of tenants in 2003 following the transfer of homes from Walsall Borough Council. It now manages eight estates in the area. Following an aspiration of tenants on three tenant-managed estates in Lambeth to set-up a community association, their appeal was picked up by WATMOS, who will now set up central support services in the borough as well as a Lambeth board made up of residents from the three estates. The transfer, says WATMOS, will bring new jobs to the area, improve the local economy and see an investment of £24 million over the next five years to improve the living conditions on the estates. Read more on 24dash.
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