ALMO Offers Landlords Cash Reward For Finding MP A Home

A London-based ALMO managing social homes on behalf of Westminster City Council is offering landlords a £150 reward for finding a flat for an MP. The move has been attacked by Labour councillors in the borough who have questioned the priority of the social landlord arguing that it should be “building more social housing for Westminster's low income families and not looking for expensive homes for homeless Members of Parliament”. The appeal has come from the ALMO’s private lettings arm – set up in 2009 to let properties in Westminster within the private sector to "professional tenants, companies and students".  It has previously been attacked by Labour councillors for marketing ex-council homes for more than £450,000 and advertising them for rent at three times the level they would have been had they remained under local authority control.  Read more on 24dash.