Reduction of 31 ALMOs in Five Years

Nine arm’s-length management organisations (ALMOs) have been scrapped, converted to housing associations or earmarked for closure in the last few months. Waltham Forest is the latest ALMO to look at bringing services back in-house. This follows two other London councils, Hackney and Lambeth, which have also recently announced plans to scrap their ALMOs. The closures will bring the net reduction of ALMOs since 2010 to 31, leaving the National Federation of ALMOs with 39 members, down from 70 at the ALMO programme’s height in 2010. Read more on Inside Housing.